BLACKWELL FAMILY AGNES BLACKWELL JONES Miscellany[*1940*] Mrs. Agnes B. Jones, A Landscape Artist Member of a Noted Family and a Niece of Lucy Stone Dies Special to The New York Times Montclair, N.J., Jan. 29-- Mrs. Agnes Blackwell Jones, artist, died today at her home here after an illness of one month. She was 71 years old. Born in Newark, Mrs. Jones was the daughter of the late Samuel C. and the Rev. Antoinette B. Blackwell. Her mother was the first ordained woman minister in the United States. Mrs. Jones also was the niece of the late Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and the late Dr. Emily Blackwell, founders of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, and of the late Lucy Stone, suffragist. Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree in this country. Mrs. Jones had studied landscape painting under Kenyon Cox, William and Guy Wiggins and also in Europe. She had exhibited at local museums, in shows held by the National Women's Painters and Sculptors group and at the National Arts Club, New York. She was chairman of the educational committee and a trustee of the Montclair Art Museum and belonged to the Montclair Sesame Club and the Woman's Club of Upper Montclair. She was a life member of the Art Students League of New York. Surviving are her husband, Samuel T. Jones, vice president of the Chemical Bank and Trust Company of New York; two sons, S. Blackwell of Alexandria, Va., and Kenyon B.; a daughter, Mrs. Charles D. Whidden, and two sisters, Mrs. Alfred B. Robinson and Miss Grace B. Blackwell of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.30, 1940 ARTHUR GUGGENHEIM, A FURNITURE DEALER Official Who Served Spear & Co. 38 Years Dies in Train Arthur S. Guggenheim, general manager of Spear & Co. and former president of the National Retail Furniture Association, died yesterday of a heart attack in a train on his way here from Pittsburgh. He was 58 years old. During his thirty-eight years with Spear & Co., the only firm for which he ever worked, Mr. Guggenheim established a reputation for his extensive knowledge of the furniture business and for his ability to invent slogans which were adopted throughout the country. When he was 20 years old, Mr. Guggenheim came to Pittsburgh from Chicago, where he was born May 25, 1882. His first job was as an elevator operator in the Pittsburgh branch of Spear & Co. In succeeding years he worked as a salesman, store manager, furniture buyer and merchandise manager. In 1920 he was appointed general manager of the organization. A few years later he was elected to the board of directors. Among the slogans he coined were: "You furnish the girl. We'll furnish the home," and "Let us feather your nest." In 1937, when the National Retail Furniture Association, of which he was then president, moved to become affiliated with the American Retail Federation, he was one of the supporters of the consolidation. Mr. Guggenheim made his home in Pittsburgh, where he was a member of the Concordia and Westmoorland Clubs. He leaves a widow, the former May Harnett, whom he married two years ago.CARRIED HAPPY MEMORIES The long association of his family with the Vineyard ante-dated by two generations the Island visits of Samuel T. Jones of Montclair, N.J., who died early in October. His summer home here, to which he had brought his family since the turn of the century, was the old home at Quitsa, Chilmark, where his mother in law, the famed Dr. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, had likewise vacationed with her family. Dr. Blackwell's mother, Mrs. Samuel Blackwell, the former Hanna(h) Lane, used to come to a house which is now the lodge at Windy Gates; to the Lucy Stone house, Cliff Cottage, now owned by Harold H. Helm; and finally to the George Blackwell house, now owned by Mrs. Charles Belden, and known as The Great Desert Serpent. Mr. Jones' three children, Mrs. Charles D. Whidden, and Samuel B. and Kenyon Jones, and their children, round out five generations of this distinguished family to summer here. He was a generous contributor to the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, the Chilmark library and the Chilmark church, and it was on his property that the famous Chilmark softball games have been played for the past six years. Mr. Jones enjoyed the Vineyard tremendously, and even this past summer, although he was failing in strength and well aware of the gravity of his condition, he rallied while at Quitsa, so that it was possible for him to carry with him happy memories of good Island friends, a few swims on Stonewall Beach, a sail or two on the pond, and many restful hours on the Vineyard he loved so well, and where his family plans next summer to inter his ashes in the family plot in the Chilmark cemetery.Alfred Brookes Robinson, Jr., at the age of one month Born Apr, 17th, 1903.Mrs. S.T. Jones, 50 Lloyd Road Montclair New Jersey. The following persons gave $5. each (continued): Mrs. Oakes Ames, 225 Bay State Road, Boston, Mass. Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw, Dover Road, Wellesley, Mass. President Ellen F. Pendlweton, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. Mrs. Prescott O. Clarke, 219 Blackstone Boulevard, [Provdence, R.I.] Providence, Rhode Island Mrs. George Howard Parker, 16 Berkeley Street, Cambridge, Mass. Julia Delano, 50 Hawthorne Street, New Bedford, Mass. Louise M. Chamberlin, Care of the Harvard Trust Company, Cambridge, Mass. (Like Helen O. Sprague, this woman responded to the appeal in the Boston Transcript, and wished to be anonymous. I am not sure that it would be wise to thank them. Their gifts were acknowledged through the Transcript.) Mrs. Laura E. Richards, Gardiner, Maine. (She is Julia Ward Howe's daughter. I have not yet been able to send you her contribution, because at present the government will not let us send any money abroad. As soon as the embargo is taken off, I shall forward it.) The following persons gave $3. each: Professor Jeannette Marks, Fleur de Lys, Westport on Lake Champlain, New York. (Her permanent address is Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, Mass.) Mrs. Helen Adelaide Shaw, 73 Chandler Street, Boston, Mass. (I am not quite sure whether she gave $3 or $2. I sent you her letter at the time.) The following persons gave $2. each: Dr. Mary E. Woolley, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. Mrs. George E. Henry, 16 Lawson Road, Winchester, Mass. Reverend Christopher R. Eliot, 21 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, Mass. One dollar was given me by Miss Jenkins, Care of Mrs. G. Herbert Jenkins Box 87, Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. Miss Bertha H. Gault, Library of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. had sent me $5. for Babushka, just before I began to try to collect this money. She gave it unsolicited. Mrs. Samuel Dauchey, 525 Hawthorne Place, Chicago, Illinois, promised to try to collect some money for Babushka's students, but I have not heard how successful she was. Her sister, Mrs. W.F. Dummer, 679 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, is interested in Babushka also. I think that this completes the list, and I hope that no one has been forgotten. I am sending a copy of this list to Mrs. Irene Dietrick. Much love.Samuel Blackwell Jones 2 yrs + 9 1/2 mo. 1905.