History of Warsaw, (Richmond County) Virginia United States of America

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William Atkinson Jones, representative, was born at Warsaw, Va., March 21, 1849; son of Thomas and Anne Seymour (Trowbridge) Jones; grandson of Thomas and Mary (Lee) Jones and of James and Cornelia (Rogers) Trowbridge, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., and great grandson of Gen. Joseph Jones, of Dinwiddie county, Va., who was prominent in the Revolutionary war, and who married Jane, daughter of Roger Atkinson; and also great grandson of Richard and Sally Lee, of Lee Hall, Westmoreland county, Va. William Atkinson Jones attended the Virginia Military institute in the winter of 1864-65, and served with the cadets in the defence of the city of Richmond until the evacuation in 1885. He attended Coleman's school in Fredericksburg, Va., until 1868, when he entered the University of Virginia, pursued the study of law and was graduated from there and admitted to the bar in 1870. He engaged in the practice of law at Warsaw, Va.; was commonwealth's attorney of his county for several years; a delegate from Virginia to the Democratic national convention at Cincinnati in 1880; a delegate-at-large and chairman of his state delegation to the Democratic national convention held at Chicago in 1896, and a delegate-at-large from Virginia to the Democratic national convention at Kansas City in 1900. He was married, Jan. 23, 1889, to Claude D., daughter of John and Mary Motley, of Williamsburg, Va. He was a representative from the first Virginia district in the 52d, 53d, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th and 58th congresses, 1891-1905.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Warsaw, (Richmond County) Virginia

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