Jones, Samuel Beach, Dd

Jones, Samuel Beach, D.D.

a Presbyterian minister, was born at Charleston, S.C., November 23, 1811. He studied at Yale College; spent four years in Princeton Theological Seminary (1832-36); acted one year as assistant secretary of the Board of Missions; was ordained in 1837; became professor of Hebrew in the Oakland Seminary, Mississippi, in 1838; was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Bridgeton, N.J., from 1839 to 1863; preached in Fairfield from 1870 to 1875, and died at Bridgeton, March 19, 1883. See (N.Y.) Observer, March 22, 1883. (W.P.S.) —