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“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES HDT WHAT? INDEX “DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES 1834 June 11, Wednesday: Samuel Arthur Jones was born in Manchester, England, to the Welsh parents John Edwin Jones and Margaret Edwards Jones. Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 4th day 6 M 11th 1834 / Early this Morning Ann V Allen daughter of Gideon Allen of New Bedford Died at the Institution aged 13 Years She was taken on 7th day last with a distressing disease which proved to be the Dropsy in the Head - her Agony was great till very near the close & she was deprived of reason very soon after she was taken — In the Afternoon her father carried her home for Internment - This event was an exceedingly trying one -not only to us but throughout the whole Institution RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS HDT WHAT? INDEX “DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES 1842 The Welsh family of 8-year-old Samuel Arthur Jones came to the USA. He would attend the Free Academy in Utica, New York but not enter college, instead reading medicine with a Utica physician, Dr. W.H. Watson. He would become an advocate of the “homoeopathic” theories of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (German, 1757-1843). According to this theory a physician ought to administer, to an ill patient, a drug which, if administered to a healthy person, would induce the same symptoms exhibited by that patient, but should administer the drug in infinitesimally small doses, and only after the medication had been struck repeatedly against a leather pad. Since an infinitesimal dose is essentially no dose at all, this medical treatment amounted in practice to the entire withholding of medical attention from the ill. To extend such an agenda to the area of penology, we might suppose that if it is appropriate to subjugate an unruly prisoner by the use of a cattle prod, a more effective technique would be to rub them with a balloon until the static charge made the hair on their heads stand on end. Likewise, we don’t need cyanide gas to execute anyone, since if we would only test this — we would discover it to be considerably more deadly to merely shake a bag of almonds under their nose. HDT WHAT? INDEX “DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES 1845 Maria Jane Van Brunt was born in Englewood, New Jersey, a daughter of William Hiram Van Brunt (1884- 1964) and Etta Baird Van Brunt (1890-1977). HDT WHAT? INDEX “DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES 1856 The Times of London’s annual summary: READ ABOUT THE YEAR At Leicester Square in London, the closing of the Royal Panopticon of Science and Art. On the site of the Surrey Zoological Gardens near London, Surrey Music Hall opened. The General Omnibus Company (LGOC) went into business in London. Samuel Arthur Jones returned to England (until 1860). HDT WHAT? INDEX “DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES 1857 James Reynolds’s map of London, divided into quarter mile sections, drawn and engraved by R. Jarman, and hand colored. Dimensions 29.5 x 19.5 inches. Published at 174 Strand Street. http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/ In London, opening of the National Portrait Gallery. In London, opening of the Museum of Ornamental Art (what would eventuate in the Victoria and Albert Museum). In London, opening of the South Kensington Museum. In London, opening of the British Library Reading Room. Samuel Arthur Jones, upon a visit to London, purchased some 18th-Century literature and began a lifelong project of accumulating books of value and historical significance (such as MOBY-DICK). Charles Manby Smith’s THE LITTLE WORLD OF LONDON. Francis Galton and Louisa Jane Butler Galton purchased a home at Rutland Gate in London. HDT WHAT? INDEX “DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES http://www.victorianlondon.org/publications7/world-00.htm LONDON HDT WHAT? INDEX “DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES 1860 Samuel Arthur Jones, who had returned from England to the United States and settled in Englewood, New Jersey, was awarded a “medical diploma” by the Missouri Homoeopathic Medical College in St. Louis, an institution at which he had never studied. HDT WHAT? INDEX “DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES 1861 On the strength of a fraudulent “medical diploma” issued by the Missouri Homoeopathic Medical College in St. Louis, an institution at which he had not studied, “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones was awarded a second “medical diploma” by the Pennsylvania Homoeopathic Medical College. This 2d institution of medical education was a venue at which he had at one time, for several terms, actually been a student! At some point he enlisted in the 22d New Jersey Volunteers. He would serve for 9 months in the Army of the Potomac as First Assistant Surgeon, then become an Assistant Surgeon for 22d Regiment of the New York National Guard, but would soon be invalided home with inflammatory rheumatism. US CIVIL WAR Massachusetts Board of Education, TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT, together with the TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT of the Secretary of the Board, Boston, William White. (The General Statutes of Massachusetts regarding public education are included in this report, with explanations by the Secretary of the Board.) REPORTS OF THE SELECTMEN AND OTHER OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD, FROM MARCH 5, 1860, TO MARCH 4, 1861. INCLUDING THE MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN TOWN IN 1860. ALSO, THE REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR ENDING APRIL 1, 1861. Bound with REPORTS OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SCHOOLS, OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD, MASS., WITH A NOTICE OF AN EXHIBITION OF THE SCHOOLS, IN THE TOWN HALL, ON SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1861. Concord: Printed by Benjamin Tolman, 78 pages. One thousand copies were printed for distribution and one of these copies wound up of course in the personal library of H.D. Thoreau, who was listed in the town’s expenses as having been paid $1.00 before the onset of his illness for “surveying on turnpike.” SCHOOL REPORT 1860-61 (We note with interest that the electronic copy hiding behind the above hypertext button turns out to have been donated from the library of sometimes-Thoreau-scholar “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones,1 and that the postage the town of Concord had needed to mail this book to him at an Ann Arbor, Michigan address had been 4 newly issued serrated-edge penny stamps featuring Benjamin Franklin in a greenish ink.2) 1. We note that in this very year “Dr.” Jones, having been awarded a diploma by the Missouri Homoeopathic Medical College in St. Louis, Missouri –although this was an institution of medical education and training at which in fact he had never studied– was attempting to utilize that new document, piling piece of paper atop piece of paper, to build credentials for himself as a physician. (Heaven protect his patients!) 2. Originally so honored had been 1st President George Washington, in black with straight edges at X cents, and 1st Postmaster Franklin, worth precisely one-half X cents, as of 1847. HDT WHAT? INDEX “DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES When the College of Homœopathic Medicine was established in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones “was unanimously nominated by Dr. Carroll Dunham and the American Institute of Homœopathy as the only man for the place, and his appointment was made by the Board of Regents.” Superintendent of Schools A. Bronson Alcott’s report instanced that Mr. Emerson had given the school a conversation on persons and books, Mr. Pratt had read a paper on Flowers and Flower Culture, and Mr. Sanborn had read a paper on the History of Numbers, but that Mr. Bull’s engagements had prevented him from delivering his “partly promised” account of the discovery and culture of the Concord grape (since he had lost his entire crop due to an early frost, he may have been disheartened), and that due to health issues Mr. Thoreau had unfortunately proved unable to deliver a promised discourse upon his favorite theme of Nature as the friend and preceptor of man (a topic on which everyone hoped he was still writing). Thirty-two persons were reported to have gotten married in Concord during the previous year, 22 of them Concord inhabitants “and 10 from other places,” and this official report took explicit note of the fact that although one of the bridegrooms had been getting married for the 2d time, and another for the 3d time, “Of the females, all were first marriages.” (Count their legs and divide by two, sixteen lovely brides!) Forty-three births were reported to have occurred in Concord during 1860, and this official report noted that less than a third of those infants were Irish whereas in 1859, fully half had been Irish — and therefore “America will have cause to be hopeful.” (Hopeful that Irish immigrants might not actually be able to swamp America with their relentless fecundity?) The following persons were officially reported to have succumbed in Concord during 1860: • George Atcheson, who had lived 1 year, 1 month, 8 days. • Nehemiah Ball, who had lived 69 years, 2 months, 11 days. • Martha Tilden Bartlett, who died at the age of 61 years. • Ruth J. Clark, who died at the age of 75 years. • Julia Collins, who died at the age of 1 year, 9 months, 16 days. • Mary Collins, who died at the age of 8 months, 16 days. • Ephraim Dakin, who had lived 86 years, 1 month, 24 days.