heads of families. The father of these children amassed quite a fortune, and was a prominent man. He died on the 10th of June, 1890, but his wife survives him. His character, both private and public, was honorable and upright, and he was a good man in the fullest sense of the word. Albert Jones, the eldest of the four children mentioned above, grew to manhood with a farm experience, and received a common education in the school of Illinois. He enlisted in 1867, in the United States Army, Fourth United States Infantry, and served for three years on the plains. While in the army he improved his education by study and observation, and is to-day a well-posted man on any subject. After being discharged from the army he returned to Illinois, and tilled the soil for eight years in Kane County. In 1879 he moved to Iowa, located on a farm in Collins Township, Story County, and there he resides at the present time. He was married in Kane County, in 1876, to Mrs. Mary J. Jones, a widow, and a native of New York State. She is the daughter of Hugh J. Hughes, who was a native of Wales, and received her education in the schools of New York. Mr. Jones has four children: Hattie M. ( a teacher in the county) and Ella S. (also a teacher), Cora A. and Grace E. Mr. Jones has owned his present farm for twenty years, and to his original tract has added an adjoining farm, making 500 acres. In the spring of 1886 he moved to town, and engaged in merchandising, which he carries on at the present time. He carries a good stock of implements, furniture etc., and is doing a good business. Mr. Jones is a Republican in politics, and has held several local positions of honor. He was elected justice of the peace in 1885, to fill a vacancy, was re-elected, and has held term after term since. He served three years as trustee, and has served as a delegate to State conventions. Mr. Jones is a member of the I. O. G. T., and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is trustee.
John Jory, the subject of this sketch, was born near Niagara Falls, Canada, February 14, 1843. From there he moved with his parents to Brantford, Upper Canada, and subsequently, when only seven years old, to Boone County, Ill., where he was reared on the farm and attended school. Having attended the ordinary school of the district he went to the high school at Roscoe, Ill., in which he acquired a very good education. Upon arriving at the age of eighteen or twenty years, when the tocsin of war was sounded, he commenced the battle of life by enlisting, October 7, 1861, in Company F, Forty-fifth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, then being organized at Galena, Ill., and was mustered into the United States service at Chicago, Ill., in December, 1861. Two months after enlistment the regiment was ordered to Cairo, where it was assigned to the Third Division, Seventeenth Army Corps, participating in the capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. When the forces then commanded by Gen. U. S. Grant went to Pittsburg Landing, they formed a line a short distance from Shiloh, on which ground is recorded in history a memorable battle between Gens. Grant and Beauregard, the commanders of the contending armies. After the evacuation of Corinth, Mr. Jory was detached from his regiment in May, being assigned duty at the Third Division headquarters as dispatch orderly. He went with the army to Holly Springs, Oxford and Abbyville, and as far south as the army went, thence returned to La Grange, thence with the army to Memphis, Tenn., after Gen. Grant's army failed to co-operate with Gen. W. T. Sherman in the capture of Vicksburg. Later he accompanied the Third Division, then commanded by