Joseph Jones, M.D.

Joseph Jones, M.D. Joseph Jones, the descendant of a prominent Southern family, was born in Liberty County, Georgia on 6 September 1833, to Charles Colcock and Mary Sharpe Jones. Since education was such a high priority of the family, Joseph began his college career at South Carolina College and then transferred to his father's alma mater, Princeton. After graduating from Princeton in 1853, Jones enrolled into the medicine program at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he …

…Though the end of the war proved to be a trying time for the South, Jones' career did not die out along with slavery. He accepted a teaching job at the University of Nashville and then went on to the University of Louisiana (later Tulane University). He built a new life as well as a new career in science, a life that surpassed his former accomplishments and achievements that he found in the Civil War.