JONES, J. W. C.

JONES, TOLMAN

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 10/26/2025 at 20:43:33

BURLINGTON CITY.
(P. O. BURLINGTON)

JONES, J. W. C., attorney at law ; was born in Miami Co., Ohio, Oct. 11, 1844, and removed, with his father, in 1847, to Newberry, S. C. ; he was educated at Columbia College, South Carolina, and graduated from that institution in 1861 ; he came to Burlington in the fall of 1865 ; in 1866, he organized and taught for two years a High School at Pleasant Grove, this county ; in September, 1868, he went to Danville and conducted an Academy until the fall of 1870 ; in 1871, was chiefly engaged in writing fur educational periodicals and preparing for normal work ; from 1872 to 1876, he was Principal of the Burlington city schools, and a Conductor of Normal Institutes; in 1875 and 1876, he instituted a system of graded schools in Grafton, Ill., and at the same time organized a Normal Institute at Jerseyville ; in January, 1877, he was admitted to the bar. In 1865, he married Miss Hattie E. Tolman, who was born in Medina Co., 0. ; they have five sons —Lambert B., Benson E., Lewis T., Robert Lee and John Tracy. Mr. Jones has been prominently identified with the political interests of Iowa and Illinois, in various ways, and has been active in campaign speaking in the interests of the Democratic party.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879