Show II t WAS IN WAH OF 1012 UXBkNATOn CCOIIGt WALLACE JONES OF IOWA rlra laetese In I tnngrss Cens lIhl lib 1c loronol a1 tint soslnr ronI th atawk f 111 aiatoa Career 190IK1R I Wallace 1 J Jones ex United JjW1 1 1110111I Senator from 1 I loa but had tire olIV tI I mnrkible career Ii a r Horn nt Vlnceunit rs1Rl lli r 1ml April 12 1801 I 1 he wens n drummer I I wrn boy In tho wiir of 112 and won dla Unction In the lltnck Hank war lie wan the tail delegate I In cangreM front the territory of MlchUan the flMt dcloRile from Wisconsin and tho first United States Senator from the Stale of loa and ho selected the namet Vhcon ln and Iowa lie has known every Irenldrnt share Monroe was In he escort of jifa > ette wn a builnem partner of Daniel Veb ler wan the colleague In rnnirreii of Thomas II Benton Chnrlcn Simmer Stephen A Douglas Vllllam II Reward nod James luchanan wan the Intimate friend of John C Calhoun Martin Van lluren henry Clay John C frcmont idler Ion Iili and franklin fierce was a nlnlnler to South America before Iho war was n party to seven affairs 01 honor caught the dlng victim of the lllcylrnc duel In Ids ann wan mprl oned by Seward on mmplclon of icing In roltiiilon with Jefferson Dm In wee the ChPitcrdeld of Waihlngton society nearly fifty yean ago was once ho richest man In IOWA hut In his alter years ban had litho Income except ex-cept a pension of 20 n mouth granted eighty Beare after hula service ni a drummer boy To these mutt bo added many minor dlitlnctloni I try tnc ln llIrun la the 1lIrlno the I e1 t11 II t r r prescnled by one III I In I I One of hla first acts II I he Inlr i i u bill for the for tealhe of 141 1 pin Tirrltor which coral 411 most or the country weft t Ik Mlihlgan HP took the nllll rata Hi On moniln river 110 nafinei y larquettp and secured the passel I ill bill hefor the bill nd tsiltlag ilhlin to tntohood I wise pascal lie was plrll 1 delegate from WIIa while still holctlnll that Io tlllot from Michigan He lntroduee1 and Henred the paiwage of the bill cre fJ the Territory of Iowa I redden Van Huren appointed him sur > qr general of the Northwest Territory and he became a resident of Dub a0e pfMijcnt 1 viniam Henry llnrniea removeil him but ho was rIP r-IP > ttftl by President Iolk Ho was chosen ntl toiled Stales niltor from Iowa In UI a 110on tll which ho was rt elected In 1819 he wn np f > Mft minister to the country now knola as Colombia Whllo there he wrote 10 Jefferson Unll who hlld been i liMttnanl with him In the Black Hawk war Jon did not know of th liettnnlng of the war and the terms of hit letter lo his old friend put Urn under suspicion when It fell Into the hands of Secretary Reward General Jones wa recalled and Im prlwttd In Port Lafayette l for shny four days President Lincoln become conrlaced of bit Innocence sod ordered his release A year or two later General Gen-eral Jones retired from public life Atone time ho and Daniel Webster were partners In tho town idle of Madly ton WII and Hloux City Iowa He acted ii second for Jonathan Clltey In the fatal duel with William J Grave In 1111 In Ib92 congre voted him n pcntkm for scnlre In tlio war ot 1812 and the Hlack Hawk war It also roe Imkariwl him for services while In Sooth America it w itt v n i-tt rr r sc6d1 s a 1jYly ti r e 1A t A F t41 OEN GCO W JONES General Jones II I tho nan of John Illc Jonei mentioned In hltlory ai the friend 01 llcnjamln Tranklln The father Will for years chief Justice of the supremo court of Missouri Tbe family lived at St lenevlovc Mo In 1811 anti when Captain llnn was com mlnloned to raise a company of not dlcn young Jones was tho drummer boy who marched about lie streets In that service Ho graduated from Transylvania University at Lexington Lexing-ton Ky In 1S25 Henry Clay was bit college guardian In 1SI3 ho was sergeant ser-geant of the body guard of Androw Jackson on Ills way to Waahlngton to take his seat ns United State senator When Iafajetto revisited America the young Undent wa selected by con green as n member of a reception committee com-mittee and escorted the Trench patriot through Kentucky After graduation > young Jones lived three poor ut St Jenovlcvc ttuillsd law and was clerk of tho United State district court for Missouri Ills health gave out and iris physician ordered him Into tho woods to recuperate Accompanied Ac-companied by n dozen slaves and a number of hired men ho went to Sin Blnawn Mound then In Michigan Ter rltory but now In Wliconiln not far from Dubuque Ho engaged In mlnlnr imelllng farming and merchandising living n simple rough life which restored re-stored hla health and ho boasted freedom free-dom from sickness for nearly seventy years thereafter When the Hlack Hawk war broke out In 1832 ho enlisted ai alddecamp to leneral I Henry Dodge father of his colleague al United State senator from Iowa After tho war the pioneer ft Michigan Territory chose him colonel of mllltla without hip knowledge although al-though a ton of Alexander Hamilton was n candidate Later he became u major general While organizing a company > of loldlcm at what I Is now Mineral Point wii ho woo chosen county Judge although ho had not ought tho place In 1SI6 he Will elected delegate lo conijrtM from the Territory of Michigan Michi-gan which lhlll MubrMwl all mo coon |