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Notes for Horatio Gates JONES

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JONES, Horatio Gates, educator, was born in Chester county, Pa., Feb. 11, 1777;
son of the Rev. David and Anne (Stilwell) Jones. He was educated under the care of the Rev. Burgess Allison, principal of an academy at Bordentown, N.J. He was licensed to preach, Sept. 26, 1801; ordained to the Baptist ministry, Feb. 13, 1802, and was pastor at Salem, N.J., 1802-05. He removed to Roxborough, Pa., in 1805, and was one of the founders and first pastor of the Lower Merion Baptist church, 1808-53. He was a director of the bank of Germantown; director and controller of the public schools; was a member of the board of managers of the Baptist board of foreign missions, and secretary of the board for a number of years; was influential in the organization of the manual labor school at Haddington, which in 1836 became Haddington college; was president of the board of trustees of the college, 1836-40; president of the board of trustees of the Philadelphia Baptist association, 1829-53; moderator of the association, 1816 and 1822, and was clerk in 1808-10, 1813, 1815 and 1835. He was married to Deborah Levering, a descendant of Wigard Levering, who settled in Germantown, Pa., in 1685. Brown university conferred on him the honorary degree of M.A. in 1812 and the University at Lewisburg, Pa., their first degree of D.D. in 1852. He is the author of: History of the Philadelphia Baptist
Association (1823), and was co-editor of the Latter Day Luminary. He died in Roxborough, Pa., Dec. 12, 1853.

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