Edward Sprague Jones ’50

Ed Jones died Dec. 4, 1996, in New York, N.Y., of throat cancer. He was 68. He was a resident of Oyster Bay, N.Y., where he had lived most of his life.

Ed prepared at Phillips Academy. At Princeton he majored in history, was a member of Triangle Club, Key and Seal, and ROTC. Ed had the distinction of stealing the Nassau Hall bell clapper in 1946.

After graduation, he served in Korea as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army Field Artillery. Later he was a captain in the Reserve, commanding a battery that he founded in Oyster Bay.

In the 1950s Ed created illustrations, cartoons, and caricatures for newspapers and magazines such as the Nation and the New Republic. Later he designed ceremonial regalia for, among others, the Dept. of Defense and the White House.

As an art dealer, he was associated with Peter H. Davidson and Hirschl and Adler galleries. He was an authority on the artist John Singleton Copley.

Ed, who was considered one of the country's leading genealogists, was a fellow of the American College of Genealogists.

Ed is survived by his wife of 39 years, the former Patricia Hall Bleeker; three children, Suzanne Beguelin, Abigail Feder, and Thomas IV; and three grandchildren, to all of whom the class sends its deep sympathy.

The Class of 1950