Anderson County, Tennessee Biographies Dr. Charles Bonham Jones, B. S., M. D. A prominent member of the medical profession in Knoxville is Dr. Charles Bonham Jones, who specializes in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He was born near Scarboro, on his father's farm, on the 11th of September, 1866, a son of Captain John and Orpah Hansard (Bonham) Jones. On the paternal side he is of English descent. The paternal grandfather, John Jones, was born in England and was the first member of the family to locate in this country. He came to the United States alone when a lad and first settled in Virginia, later moving to Tennessee. He married Miss Rebecca Gallaher in 1811. Upon the outbreak of the War of 1812 he was one of the first to put his personal interests aside and enlist in the American army. He died in 1813 in New Orleans, the result of yellow fever. He was a captain in the War of 1812. Captain John Jones, father of Charles Bonham Jones of this review, was born in Anderson county October 29, 1813, and engaged in farming all of his life. He was for many years a captain of the militia and was a man of great integrity and sterling worth, accorded the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. He died May 27, 1889. Mrs. Jones is also deceased. She was born December 8, 1823, in Blount county, near Maryville, Tennessee, a daughter of Martin Bonham, a native of Virginia. She passed away May 5, 1907. In the acquirement of his early education Charles Bonham Jones attended the public schools of Anderson county and subsequently entered Roane College at Wheat, Tennessee. In early life he decided to enter the medical profession and for some time engaged in reading medicine before entering the Southern Medical College at Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to enrolling in the Southern Medical College he was a student in the Tennessee Medical College and he completed his medical training in the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, Kentucky, from which institution he was graduated in 1898, with the M. D. degree. For some time thereafter Dr. Jones engaged in the practice of medicine in Anderson county and won a prominent place for himself among the foremost physicians and surgeons. Later he determined to specialize in a branch of the profession and in 1909 went to Vienna, Austria, where he took extensive postgraduate [p.496] work in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Dr. Jones also attended the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College and took work at the New York Postgraduate College. After receiving his diploma from the University of Vienna he returned to the United States and immediately located in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he has since resided. He devotes his entire time and attention to this branch of the profession and he enjoys an extensive and representative patronage, having become widely recognized as a specialist. Aside from his private practice he is a director in the Fort Sanders Hospital. Although the greater part of his time and attention is taken up by his professional duties, Dr. Jones has business interests. On the 11th of September, 1907, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Jones to Miss Jennie Rebecca Badgett, a daughter of Robert D. and Eliza (Reeder) Badgett. Her father was born in East Tennessee and for many years engaged in farming in Knox county. Mrs. Jones is a woman of much culture and refinement and she is a zealous worker in behalf of the Southern Methodist church and a great contributor to charity. The political allegiance of Dr. Jones is given to the democratic party and he is a firm believer in the principles of that party as factors in good government. Although he is actively interested in party affairs he has never sought nor desired political preferment. Along strictly professional lines he is identified with the American Medical Association, the Southern Medical Association, the East Tennessee Medical Society, the Knox County Medical Society, and the Knoxville Academy of Ophthalmology & Oto-Laryngology. The Doctor finds his greatest recreation in traveling and he is a man of genial and pleasing personality and his friends are legion. Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1769-1923, Vol. 2 -- transcribed by, Amanda Jowers