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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
A Standard History of
THE HANGING ROCK IRON REGION OF
OHIO
An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with the Extended
Survey of the Industrial and Commercial Development
Vol. II
ILLUSTRATED
Publishers - The Lewis Publishing Company
1916
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DAN C. JONES,
The many opportunities presented to the lawyer for varied
service has been well utilized by Dan C. Jones, who is in
the front rank of Lawrence County lawyers, and has a high
standing and many associations with the business, social and
civic life of his home city
Mr. Jones was born Dec. 18, 1878, at Oak Hill in
Jackson County, Ohio. His father, the late Evan C.
Jones, who was also born at Oak Hill in Jackson County in
1841 was for a number of years county surveyor and an expert
mining engineer, whose death occurred Sept. 15, 1910. Two
of Dan C. Jones' uncles, John C. Jones and
David C. Jones were the pioneer operators in the Jackson
County coal field, and John C. Jones was secretary of the
Tropic Furnace Company at Jackson, Ohio, for many years. The
mother's maiden name was Margaret Parry, who was
born at Oak Hill in Jackson County in 1852 and died in 1912.
They were the parents of five children: Dan C., Susie,
Elizabeth, Margaret and Edna.
Dan C. Jones began training for practical life
in the common schools and in the high school at Jackson,
graduated with the degree Ph. B. at the Ohio State University in
1902 and continued his course through the law department until
finishing with the degree LL. B. in 1905. During his
college career he was a member of the Greek letter fraternities
Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the Phi Delta Phi, and also belonged to
the Scholarship Honor Society, Phi Beta Kappa. Mr.
Jones began active practice of law at Ironton in 1905 with
Johnson and Corn, and afterwards became the junior
partner in the law firm of Johnson and Jones, and
soon acquired a profitable practice. Much of his work is
performed as representative of a number of important business
and industrial concerns in the Hanging Rock Iron Region.
Mr. Jones was married June 17, 1908, to
Marguerite Blanche Jones, who has brought to the management
of her home and her social relations a thorough training and
culture acquired in Oberlin College, from which she graduated A.
B. and also at the Boston Conservatory of Music and later
studied in Europe. Her father is Ezekial Jones,
a large coal operator in Jackson County.
Mr. Jones is a republican in politics, is
affiliated with the Masons, the Knights of Pythias and the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and also with the
Century Club, and his church is the Presbyterian. Mr.
Jones is a student, both in his profession and of affairs
and literature, and is one of the live men who are forwarding
the community welfare of Ironton along progressive and
substantial lines.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 759 |
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EVAN H. JONES.
A scion of sturdy Welsh lineage and a representative of a well
known pioneer family of the district of the Buckeye State to
which this history is devoted, Mr. Jones has been
long and prominently identified with business activities in the
City of Ironton, Lawrence County, where he is now engaged in the
automobile sale and livery business. He was the pioneer
operator of one of the important stage lines in this section and
few men in the Hanging Rock Iron Region have a wider circle of
acquaintances than he, this implying virtually his possession of
an equal number of staunch friends. In his present
enterprise, which is one of the most substantial and important
in this section of the state, Mr. Jones has fully
upheld the prestige and popularity which he enjoyed in the
earlier period of his business career, and it is most consonant
that in this publication be entered a brief tribute to the man,
the citizen, the friend whom everyone in his range of influence
as accorded the fullest measure of confidence and good will.
Mr. Jones was born near Centerville,
Gallia County, Ohio, on the fifteenth of June, 1848, and is a
son of Evan and Anna (Davis) Jones, both natives of
Wales, where the former was born in the year 1829. Their
acquaintanceship was formed on the sailing vessel which afforded
them transportation across the Atlantic to the United States,
and their marriage was solemnized within a short time after
their arrival in the land of their adoption. Mrs. Jones
passed to the life eternal in 1854, and later Mr.
Jones wedded \Iiss Frances Ray, who survived him by
about four years, as she passed away in 1908 and he died in
1904. Of the three children of the first marriage the
first born was Ebenezer, who died young; Mary is
the wife of Edward Stratton, of Winchester,
Kentucky; and Evan H., of this review is the youngest of
the three, he having been about seven years old at the time of
his mother's death. The five children of the second
marriage are here named in order of their birth: James,
Frank, Alice, Minerva, and Charles.
Evan H. Jones attended school about one year in
his native county and the family then removed to Floyd County,
Kentucky, where he was enabled to continue his studies in the
common schools for a period of about three years, his father
having there been engaged in the work of his trade, that of
brick and stone mason, to which he gave his attention during the
major part of his active career, his residence having been
maintained in Ironton for a number of years prior to his demise.
From Kentucky Evan H. Jones came to Ironton, where for
three years he was employed as a teamster in the service of
Benjamin Savage, a well known pioneer of Lawrence
county. For the ensuing ten years he was here engaged in
the coal business and then, in 1871, he established the first
stage or hack line between Ironton, Portsmouth and Ashland,
Kentucky. He began operation with one horse and a light
vehicle and by the time four years had elapsed he had in
requisition fifty horses, with other facilities in proportion.
He opened the main road connecting the three cities mentioned
and in his travels over his route he became well known to
citizens throughout the entire section traversed. He sold
the stage line in 1875 and in the meantime he became also the
owner and operator of the first moving vans in Ironton. He
sold the stage line to Nicholas McMahon and
thereafter continued to conduct his van business until 1884,
when he sold the same to Polly Brothers.
From 1885 until 1914 he was actively and successfully engaged in
the livery business, with a large and well equipped
establishment and a trade of very appreciable and profitable
order. His services were specially in requisition in
connection with funerals, and his equipments for this line of
service was recognized as the best in this section of the state.
In 1914 he sold his livery business and is now engaged in the
auto sale and livery business on South Third Street. In
all the relations of life Mr. Jones has been found
charitable, considerate and sympathetic, ever ready to lend aid
to those in affliction or distress, and in view of this it can
not be considered strange that he has a host of friends in the
community which has long represented his home. He is loyal
and public- spirited as a citizen, is independent in politics
and his religious faith is in harmony with the Christian Science
tenets, both he and his wife attending and supporting the
Ironton Church of this denomination. Mr. Jones
resides in a pleasant home on South Fourth Street, being the
owner of this property, and his residence is known for its
gracious hospitality, with a ready welcome to all friends of
himself and his family.
On the 3d of July, 1867, at Ironton, was celebrated the
marriage of Mr. Jones to Miss Lucinda
Wilber, daughter of the late Henry Wilber,
of Zanesville, this state. Concerning the children of this
felicitous union, the basis of an ideal home life, the following
brief record is available: Charles, who is engaged in the
undertaking business in Ironton, wedded Miss Matilda
Eberts; they have no children. Harry, who
wedded Miss Clara Morgan has no children, he being
engaged as a mail carrier in the City of Cincinnati.
Frank died in childhood. Rose is the wife of
Oscar Chatfield, of Pikesville, Kentucky, and they
have two children. Wilber, who is associated with
his father in the auto business, has been twice married and has
one child, Ralph. He first wedded Miss Mary
Pyles and after her death he married Miss Anna
Price, who likewise is deceased. Emma is the
wife of Walter Rumble, of Huntington, West
Virginia. Walter, employed as a salesman in the
City of Cincinnati, married Miss Nora Shurz and they have
one child.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 718 |
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JENKEN A. JONES.
It has been the privilege of Jenken A. Jones, of Ironton,
to realize many of his worthy ambitions, and through the
exercise of business sagacity and good judgment to wrest from
his opportunities financial and general success. As the
proprietor of a flourishing feed and produce store he is
contributing to the community a conservative and
well-established business, in the management of which he has
followed the most upright methods, and his good citizenship has
been made manifest on a number of occasions when the welfare of
the city and its people has been at stake.
Mr. Jones was born in Perry Township, on his
father's farm in Gallia County, Ohio, July 13, 1872, and is a
son of David N. and Jane (Davis) Jones, both natives of
that township. The father, although now sixty-six years of
age, is still carrying on extensive agricultural operations and
is known as one of the substantial citizens of Perry Township,
where he has served as assessor for several years. Mrs.
Jones died in 1909, at the age of fifty-one years.
There were four children in the family of David N. and Jane
Jones, namely: Thomas, who is a well-known contractor
and builder of the village of Patrick, Gallia County; John E.,
who is engaged in farming on the old homestead in Perry
Township; Jenken A., of this review; and Bert D.,
who is also a farmer of Perry Township.
The boyhood of J. A. Jones was passed on his
father's farm in Perry Township, and there he worked during the
summer months while securing his education in the district
schools during the winter terms. He remained under the
parental roof as his father's assistant until reaching the age
of twenty-six years, at which time he turned his attention to
contracting in Gallia and Jackson counties and was so engaged
four years, when he purchased a saloon at Gallipolis, and this
he conducted three years. Succeeding this he had an
experience of one year in the produce business at Gallipolis,
and in 1908 became the candidate of the republican party for the
office of sheriff of Gallia County, to which he was elected.
A term characterized by faithful and capable service won him
re-election to the shrievalty in 1910, and when his second term
expired he came to Ironton and bought the produce and feed
business established here by Mr. McNickles. Mr.
Jones had as a partner Mr. Gates, and the
business was conducted under the firm style of Jones &
Gates until 1913 when he bought his partner's interest, and
since that time has carried on the business alone as J. A.
Jones. The business has enjoyed a pleasing and
satisfactory growth, and is now valued at $9,000, attracting its
trade from all over this part of Lawrence County. As a
business man Mr. Jones is known to be progressive,
capable and enterprising, making the most of his opportunities
and meeting all engagements faithfully. He is a valued
member of the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, the
Modern Brotherhood of America and the Fraternal Order of Eagles,
in all of which he has warm and appreciative friends. He is a
member of the Baptist Church and has been liberal in his support
of its movements. Mr. Jones is the owner of
a nice home and six acres of valuable property at Gallipolis.
On Feb, 7, 1897, Mr. Jones was married at
Patriot, Gallia County, Ohio, to Miss Ethel
Carter, daughter of A. J. Carter, of that place, and
two children have been born to this union: Victor and
Margaret.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 685 |
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