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LEWIS E. JONES, Presbyterian minister, Sec. 4. The subject of this sketch was born in Cardiganshire, Great Britain, March 23, 1834; he was engaged in the manufacture of iron at Merthyr Tydvyl until 20 years of age, when he emigrated to America, landing in New York May 17, 1855; he received a good common-school education in Great Britain; his preparatory education being received at the Herron Seminary, at Cincinnati, he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, in 1859, pursuing his studies here until the spring of 1861, and in the fall of the same year, he entered the Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1864; he then presided as Pastor over the Presbyterian Church of Greenville, for one year, during which time he united the Old and New School Presbyterian Churches by his efforts. During the fall of 1864 and the early part of the winter of 1865, he was upon the battlefields of Tennessee, administering to the wants of our Union patriots, having been appointed by the Christian Commission. In the spring of 1865, he was selected, in response to the call of President Johnson, to preach a sermon to a union of churches at Greenville, in commemoration of the death of the lamented Lincoln. From 1865 to 1867, he presided over the Presbyterian Church at Tippecanoe City; then three years at Rising Sun, Ind.; thence to Reynoldsburg until 1861; thence to Edgar Co., Ill., where he remained until 1876, when he returned to his present place, and, on account of ill health, retired from the ministry until the spring of 1878, when he accepted a call as Pastor of State supply of the Presbyterian Church at Gettysburg, which position he now holds. Upon locating here in 1865, he possessed very little property, save his valuable library. His residence is located one and one-fourth miles from Greenville. On the 20th of September, 1865, he was united in marriage with Amanda Griffin; she was born in Butler Co., Ohio, Feb. 14, 1836; she is the oldest daughter of David Griffin, who located in Darke Co. in 1856.