What did he look like?

His papers include a small group of photographs

At the wedding of this nice young couple! Three generations of Ellis Oliver Jones'
June 1949, New Haven CT.
1949 was the date also of his 50th reunion of Yale Class of 1899, for which he wrote a poem.
there os also a photograph of the attending members of that class which will appear here in due course.

Unknown location and unknown date. Presumably the place he lived in Washington DC, and quite possibly the same day as the next on, taken at our house in McLean, Virginia about 1960.

There are other pictures of him here, and here.

Impatient Patricia

Patricia possessed a propensity
For showing a hyperintensity.
She avered: "I can't say
Why I struggle this way.
Perhaps it is due to my density."

Chronic

A husband from East Pennsylvania
Declared to his wive: "It is plain ya
Have nagged me so long
With your ceaseless sing-song
It's become an incurable mania."

Couldn't Make It

There once was a big Texas leaguer
Who wanted to be an intriguer,
But in spite of his pains
The sum of his gains
Was always excessively meager.

Slight Offhand

There was a bookkeeper named Jane
Who struggled for illicit gain,
So she juggled accounts
In substantial amounts
And called it mere legerdemain.

Illegal Beagle

There was a finagling beagle
That scented a real regal eagle.
When he got squared away
His owner yelled "Hey!
To inveigle an eagle's illegal."

The Cure Consumer: January 16, 1910

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