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ANSON JONES

(January 20, 1798 - January 9, 1858)

by Kameron Searle

    Note: On November 21, 2009, an Official Texas Historical Marker will be dedicated at the gravesite of Anson Jones in Glenwood Cemetery.  As the weather services indicate that the rain will have stopped by noon today and the dedication ceremony is a 2:00 p.m., the dedication ceremony will continue as planned.  See you there!

Click here for program from marker dedication of Texas Historical Commission marker for Anson Jones.

    Anson Jones was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on January 20, 1798. Jones studied medicine and received his M. D. degree in 1827. Jones came to Brazoria, Texas in 1833 and practiced medicine with much success.

    In March 1835, Anson Jones was one of six Master Masons who met near Brazoria to establish the first regularly formed Masonic lodge in Texas. Under a special dispensation from Grand Lodge of Louisiana, Holland Lodge #36 was opened on December 27, 1835 in Brazoria with Jones presiding as Worshipful Master.

    Anson Jones joined the Texas Army in 1836 and fought as a private in Sherman’s Second Regiment in the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. The formal charter grant

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Anson Jones

Texian politician

Anson Jones (January 20, 1798 – January 9, 1858) was an American medical doctor, businessman, member of Congress, and the fourth and last president of the Republic of Texas.

Early life

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Jones was born on January 20, 1798, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He traveled to Seneca Falls, New York, and opened a one-room school. He taught there from 1812 to 1813. In 1820, Jones was licensed as a doctor by the Oneida, New York, Medical Society, and began medical practice in 1822. However, his practice prospered, and he moved several more times before finally being arrested in Philadelphia by a creditor. He stayed in Philadelphia for a few more years, teaching and practicing medicine, until in 1823, he decided to go to Venezuela.

Later, Jones returned to Philadelphia, earned an MD, and reopened his practice. He never had much success as a doctor, and in 1832, he renounced medicine and headed for New Orleans, where he entered the mercantile trade. Once again, though, Jones's dreams were thwarted. Though he safely weathered two plagues, his business efforts never met with any success, and within a year he had no money.

He was a member and Past Master of the Masonic Harmony Lodge No. 52 of Philadelphia. He was a Past Grand of Indep