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HERMAN EVANT JONES, M. D.

Herman Evant Jones, M. D., is one of the oldest
and most prominent physicians in Roanoke from point
of service, and for a number of years he served the
city faithfully and well
on both the old and
new Boards of Health.
Dr. Jones was born in
Appomattox County,
Virginia, September
20th, 1860, being a son
of James Chapman and
Annie O. (Williams)
Jones, of Campbell
County. At the age of
ten years, the subject of
this sketch moved with
his parents to Appomattox
depot where as
a boy he attended the
public schools, and
when the family later
removed to Appomattox
Courthouse, he
attended the High School of that place. He then
spent two years at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
Blacksburg, where he graduated in the agricultural and
literary departments. Later he attended the University
of Virginia where he studied academical chemistry
and graduated in medicine in 1886. During the
fall and summer of that year he went to New York where
he took a post-graduate and hospital course. He then
located at Lowesville, Virginia, where he spent nineteen
months, and in June 1888, he came to Roanoke, where
he has since continuously practiced the profession of
medicine and surgery. In 1889 he attended the New
York Polyclinics, taking a second post-graduate course.
He was a member of the old city Board of Health for
about seven years, and on the reorganization and the
establishment of the new health board, was appointed
as a member and served one year after which he resigned.
For a period of two years he was assistant
city coroner.

From 1908 to 1911 he was associated with Dr. J. C.
Burks in the conduct of the Rebekah Sanitarium. During
the latter year he had erected the Jones Building
on South Jefferson Street, where in the month of
October he opened a new hospital, designed and
equipped for medical and surgical gynaecology, the
treatment of genito-urinary diseases, rest cure cases,
and degenerative and constitutional diseases. At the
new Jones Hospital a corps of trained and efficient
help is maintained.

On December 16th, 1890, Dr. Jones married Eva
Yates, daughter of the late Daniel C. and Minerva
Yates of Roanoke. He resides at 1102 Commerce
Street, Southwest.