{"id":1628,"date":"2013-05-07T13:02:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T20:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2018-07-19T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T17:52:20","slug":"jones-samuel-b-jr-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1628","title":{"rendered":"JONES, SAMUEL B., JR., 1933-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Botanist, professor of botany. Born&#8211; Dec. 18, 1933, Roswell, Ga. Parents&#8211;Samuel B. Jones Sr. and Mary Bell Nichols Jones.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Carleen Arrington, 1955.\u00a0 Children&#8211;three. Education&#8211; Auburn University, B.S., 1955, M.S., 1961; University of Georgia, Ph.D., 1964. Served in US Army and US Army Reserves; retired at rank of lieutenant colonel.\u00a0Taught at South Cobb High School (Ga.), 1958-1959; Auburn University, 1959-1961; University of Southern Mississippi, 1964-1967; University of Georgia, 1967-91; Director, Botanical Garden, University of Georgia, 1981-1991. With his wife founded Picadilly Farm Nursery and Gardens in the early 1980&#8217;s; received several awards for its work: the Perennial Plant Award of Merit, 2005, and the Award of Merit from the American Conifer Society. Recipient of a Callaway Foundation Research Grant. Member; Botanical Society of America; American Society of Plant Taxonomists; International Association of Plant Taxonomists; Sorrey Botanical Club.\u00a0 Awarded emeritus status on his retirement from the University of Georgia. Died February 9, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Men and Women of Science, 1982; obituary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Checklist of the Vascular Flora of Clarke County, Georgia. S.l.; s.n., 1980?<\/p>\n<p>Conspectus and Index to Families&#8211;Tribe Vernonieae. Chicago; s.n., s.d.<\/p>\n<p>Field Museum of Natural History, 1980. S.l.; s.n., s.d.<\/p>\n<p>Gardening with Native Wild Flowers. Portland, Ore.; Timber Press, 1990.<\/p>\n<p>List of Georgia Plants in the University of Georgia Herbarium. Athens, Ga.; Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Georgia, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast, Landscaping Uses and Identifications. Portland, Ore.; Timber Press, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Plant Systematics. New York; McGraw-Hill, 1979.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia holds a collection of papers of Samuel B. Jones Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Botanist, professor of botany. Born&#8211; Dec. 18, 1933, Roswell, Ga. Parents&#8211;Samuel B. Jones Sr. and Mary Bell Nichols Jones.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Carleen Arrington, 1955.\u00a0 Children&#8211;three. Education&#8211; Auburn University, B.S., 1955, M.S., 1961; University of Georgia, Ph.D., 1964. Served in US Army and US Army Reserves; retired at rank of lieutenant colonel.\u00a0Taught at South Cobb High School [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8437,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/8437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}