Daniel Jones (minister)

Daniel Jones (June 30, 1830 - December 25, 1891) was a Methodist Episcopal minister (M.E.) in Oregon and later in the mid west. He was the first African American to attend Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. He was a leader in the M.E. church and was presiding elder of the Lexington, Kentucky district.

Daniel Jones
Jones in 1887
Born(1830-06-30)June 30, 1830
Reading, Pennsylvania
DiedDecember 25, 1891(1891-12-25) (aged 61)
Winchester, Kentucky, United States
Alma materWillamette University
OccupationEducator, minister, journalist
Political partyRepublican
Personal
ReligionMethodist Episcopal

Early life

Danial Jones was born June 30, 1830 in Reading, Pennsylvania to Henry and Catharine Jones. Henry was a slave on the Eastern Shore of Maryland until the age of 25 when he escaped into Pennsylvania. The couple had five children. At age 10, Daniel moved to Philadelphia where he learned to be a barber. After seven years, he joined an ocean vessel. As a mariner he once landed in Charleston, South Carolina. Slavery was still legal in South Carolina and black people, free and slave, had a nightly curfew, but Jones desired to go into town. When a bell rang at nine o'clock signalling the start of curfew, Jones did not know what it meant and remained on the streets. A patrol saw him, and Jones realizing his danger, ran back to the ship, making it just in time. January 16, 1849 he joined the California Gold Rush and traveled on the ship, Gray Eagle around Cape Horn to California, landing in San Francisco in May 1849. He then worked in gold mines in California and Oregon.[1]

Career

Jones settled in Jacksonville, Oregon, living for a few years before moving to Crescent City, California to be closer to the sea and the good health effects he believed it would bring. He then moved to Salem, Oregon. He was there during the Oregon Indian War, and Jones escaped some danger. In 1862, Jones married. He had four children. Jones taught schools in Oregon, and in 1869 joined the Methodist Episcopal church. He was soon licensed to preach in the Oregon Conference. He enrolled in Willamette University in Salem, the first black man in the class. In 1873 he was a delegate from Oregon to the Civil Rights convention in Washington, DC.[1]

In 1873, Jones transferred as a preacher to Newark, New Jersey, where he remained three years. He then transferred to Cincinnati, Ohio, then to Indianapolis. In 1878 he campaigned for the Republican presidential ticket in Indiana. He was then appointed presiding elder of the Lexington, Kentucky district, a position he served until the end of his life. He moved to a church in Paris, Kentucky and then Winchester, Kentucky. In 1880 he received votes for bishop at a general M.E. conference. He was also a delegate to the National Convention of Colored Men in 1880 in Nashville, Tennessee. During his career he was an occasional correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette and other local papers.[1] In 1888,

His ordination as deacon was by Bishop Edmund S. Jones and as an elder by Bishop Edward Raymond Ames.[1]

Death

Jones died on December 25, 1891 in Winchester, Kentucky of influenza.[2]

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References
  1. Simmons, William J., and Henry McNeal Turner. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. GM Rewell & Company, 1887. p583-587
  2. Death of a Colored Minister, The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) December 26, 1891, page 8, accessed November 1, 2016 at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7275482/death_of_a_colored_minister_the/
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