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Anonymous author (Boston: New England Historical Pub. Co., 1902)
Page 190, et. seq.
HON. LEONARD AUGUSTUS JONES, A.B., LL.B., Judge of the Court of Land Registration of Massachusetts, was born in Templeton, Mass., January 13, 1832, the eldest son of Augustus Appleton and Mary (Partridge) Jones. He is a representative of the seventh generation of the family founded by Lewis Jones, who with his wife, Ann, joined the First Church at Roxbury (the Rev. John Eliot, pastor) about the year 1640. his lineage is: Lewis, Josiah, James, Aaron, Aaron, Augustus Appleton, Leonard Augustus. This and further particulars that follow relating to his ancestors we learn from a genealogy compiled by William Blake Trask, entitled "Some of the Descendants of Lewis and Ann Jones, of Roxbury, Mass., through their Son Josiah and Grandson James."
In 1650 or about that date Lewis Jones removed to Watertown, where he d. at the age of about eighty, in April, 1680, having survived his wife nearly four years. His will mentions his daughter, Lydia Whitney (wife of Jonathan), and his son Josiah, whom he made executor. Josiah m. in 1667 Lydia, daughter of Nathaniel and Sufferana (How) Treadway, of Watertown, and grand-daughter of Elder Edward How. He was a Captain of militia, was Selectman six years, and was a Deacon of the church of Weston, then the western precinct of Watertown, from January, 1709-10, till his death in 1714, at the age of seventy-four years. His wife d. in 1743, aged ninety-five years. They had ten children, all of whom m. and had families. James, their sixth child and fourth son, b. in 1679, m. Sarah, daughter of Captain Moore, of East Sudbury, and had eleven children. Aaron, the ninth child, was b. at Weston in 1723. He was three times m. By his first wife, Silence Cutting, daughter of Robert and Abigail (Sawin) Cutting, of Weston and Sudbury, he had five children; by his second, Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Charles Presoctt, of Concord, he had two; and by his third, Miriam Brewer, he had five. Like hsi father and grandfather, he was a Captain of militia. He removed to Templeton in 1772, being one of the original proprietors of the town. The first potash works in Templeton were built by him. He d. April 19, 1820, in the ninety-seventh year of his age. He hired a substitute to serve for him seven months in the Revolutionary army, paying more than the proceeds of a sale of one hundred and forty acres of "excellent new land." Aaron, b. in 1761, son of Aaron and Silence Jones, m. in 1785 Betsy Bush. He d. in Templeton in 1828, and his wife d. in 1834. They had seven children. Augustus Appleton, b. in 1797, the father of Judge Jones, was a farmer and manufacturer. For many years he held responsible public offices in Templeton. He was for eleven years a Selectman, and was held in high respect for his thorough integrity of character. He d. August 14, 1878. He m. January 27, 1831, Mary Partridge, who was descended in the sixth generation from John Partridge, of Medfield, Mass., an early settler of that town. She was b. September 18, 1804, and d. June 5, 1875. They had five children, namely: Leonard Augustus, whose personal history is outlined below; James Lloyd, b. August 12, 1834, d. July 15, 1838; Edward Lloyd, b. July 11, 1839, who served as Sergeant in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers in 1862, and was commissioned Captain of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers, May 14, 1863, served to December 16, 1864, was severely wounded in the attack on Fort Wagner, was afterward Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate of Ohio, and d. from the effects of his wound January 3, 1886; Julius Appleton, b. July 6, 1843, who m. Aurora Lucy Randall, of Augusta, Me.; and, second, m. Ellen Sophia Holland of Medford, Mass.; and Charles Emmons, b. November 15, 1848, who m. November 4, 1871, Ida Wright, of Templeton.
Leonard A. Jones was fitted for college at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., was graduated Bachelor of Arts at Harvard in 1855, and from the Harvard Law School in 1858. In his Senior year at college he received the first Bowdoin Prize for a dissertation, his subject being "the Nature and Limitations of Instinct"; and he afterward received the prize open to resident graduates for a dissertation on "The Influence of the Science of Political Economy upon the Legislation of Modern Times" and in the same year, in the Law School, a prize for a dissertation on "The Right of a Legislature to change the Legal Character of Estates or the Title to Property by General or Special Enactments.".
During the school year of 1856-57, before entering the Law School, he taught in the high school in St. Louis, and was offered an appointment of a tutorship at Washington University. Admitted to the bar in Boston in February, 1858, after a few months spent in the law office of C.W. Loring, he began practice by himself at 5 Court Street, in the same office with Wilder Dwight, and a year or two later occupied an office with George Putnam at 4 Court Street. In 1866 he went into partnership with Edwin Hale Abbott, one of his Harvard classmates, joined later by John Lathrop, afterward a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, the firm then becoming Lathrop, Abbot & Jones. From 1876 Mr. Jones conducted his law business alone. For seventeen years, or since January, 1885, he has been one of the editors of the American Law Review. From 1891 to 1902 he was a commissioner for Massachusetts for the Promotion of Uniform Legislation in the United States; and in October, 1898, he was appointed by Governor Wolcott Judge of the Court of Land Registration for Massachusetts. He has been a contributor to various periodicals, among them the Atlantic Monthly (volume V.), Old and New, and North American Review. He is, however, best known as the author of legal works, which may well be characterized as voluminous and important, and are used in every part of the United States and to some extent in foreign countries. Some of them have reached the fifth revised edition. They are: --
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A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages of Real Property. Fifth Edition, revised and enlarged. Two volumes, 8vo, pages 983, 1006.
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A Treatise on the Law of Corporate Bonds and Mortgages. Being the second edition of Railroad Securities, revised. One volume, 8vo, 680 pages.
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A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages of Personal Property. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. One volume, 8vo, 900 pages.
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A Treatise on the Law of Pledges, including Collateral Securities. Second edition. One volume, 8vo, 907 pages.
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A Treatise on the Law of Liens, Common Law, Statutory, Equitable, and Maritime. Second edition. Two volumes, 8vo, 800 pages each.
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Forms in Conveyancing. With practical notes. Fifth edition. One volume, 8vo, 985 pages.
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A Treatise on the Law of Real Property, as applied between Vendor and Purchaser in Modern Conveyancing, or Estates in Fee and their Transfer by Deed. Two volumes, 8vo, pages 957, 853.
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A Treatise on the Law of Easements. In continuation of the Author's Treatise on the Law of Real Property. One volume, 8vo, 830 pages.
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An Index to Legal Periodical Literature. One volume, Large 8vo; also second volume, 1899, including articles from 1887 to 1899 on Law, Legislation, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, and Legal Biography.
Mr. Jones is also the American editor of volumes xix. to xxv. of English Ruling Cases, and one of the editors of "Memoirs of the Judiciary and Bar of New England for the Nineteenth Century."
By invitation of the Virginia State Bar Association he delivered the annual address before that body at Virginia Beach in July, 1894, on "Uniformity of Laws through National and Interstate Codification."
Mr. Jones was married December 14, 1867, by the Rev. Edwin G. Adams, minister of the First Parish (Unitarian) of Templeton, to Miss Josephine Lee, daughter of Colonel Artemas Lee, of Templeton, and his wife, Lucy Bond. Colonel Lee's father was General Samuel Lee, of Barre, Mass.; and Lucy Bond was descended from Thomas and Elizabeth Bond, of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, whose son William came to America and settled in Watertown about 1640, and was a neighbor of the ancestors of Mr. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have no children living, their only son and child having died in infancy. They reside on Mount Vernon Street, Boston.
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