Jenkin Lloyd Jones is one of the best-known Wisconsin
ministers. We say "Wisconsin," for, though he is now a
resident of Chicago, his parents moved from South Wales to
Wisconsin in 1843 when Jenkin Lloyd Jones was an infant.
During his boyhood he worked on the home farm; then in 1862
he enlisted, and served for three years in the Sixth
Wisconsin Battery in the Civil War. He is a graduate of the
Meadville, Pennsylvania, theological seminary of the class of
1870. He holds an honorary degree of LL. D. granted by the
University of Wisconsin in 1909. He was pastor of All Souls
Church, Janesville, from 1871 to 1880. He established, with
others, "Unity," a weekly paper, now organ of the Congress of
Religion, and has been its editor since 1879. He organized
All Souls Church in Chicago, and has been its pastor since
1882. He is the author of almost countless pamphlets and
several books, among the latter being "Love and Loyalty,"
"What Does Christmas Really Mean," "On the Firing Line in the
Battle for Sobriety," and his creative instinct has shown
itself in the organization of many societies and institutions
for the uplift of mankind.