Jones, Louis C(lark) (1908– )

US folklorist. A specialist in New York state folklore, 18th-century social history, and American folk art, he directed the State University of New York's Cooperstown graduate programmes 1964–82.

He was born in Albany, New York. He was a literature professor before becoming founding director of the Cooperstown (New York) Farmers' Museum 1946–72, which he developed into a leading museum of rural life. There he originated, in 1948, the Seminars on American Culture.