Calvin Jones (physician)

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Calvin Jones (April 2, 1775 - September 20, 1846) was a North Carolina physician and a part of the group of founders of the North Carolina Medical Society[1]. He served 1802 to 1832 as a trustee of the University of North Carolina[1]. Jones was also elected to the North Carolina House of Commons (1799 and 1802) and as the Mayor (then called Intendant of Police) of Raleigh, North Carolina[1].

Jones served as adjutant general of the state militia during the period of the War of 1812[1] and claimed to know Andrew Jackson and Jackson's wife "very well personally" in a letter he wrote to a cousin in 1828[2].

In 1817 and 1819 he was Grand Master of Masons in North Carolina[1].

The 615 acre plantation he owned, Wake Forest (or Forest of Wake), was purchased by the North Carolina Baptist Convention in 1832[1] and became the first home of Wake Forest College[3]. The main dwelling on the site, built circa 1820, is now a museum for the Wake Forest College Birthplace Society[4].

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Powell, William S., ed. (1988), Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, vol. 3, University of North Carolina Press, ASIN B000O7UO8W, <http://www.wfu.edu/history/HST_WFU/jones.htm> 
  2. ^ "Birthplace buys early Jones letter" (2007-10-27). Wake Forest Gazette 5 (41). Carol Pelosi. 
  3. ^ History. Town of Wake Forest, North Carolina. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
  4. ^ Calvin Jones Historical House. Wake Forest College Birthplace Society. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.


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