J. R. JONES, JR.
J. R. Jones, Jr., is a native of Utica, New York, and a son of J. R. and Amanthis E. (Newell) Jones. J. R. Jones, Sr., is a native of Westchester county, New York. Mrs. Amanthis E. Jones was born in Utica, where she died in 1853, at the age of forty-one years. When the subject of this sketch was fourteen years of age his parents removed to Iowa county, Wisconsin, where he resided sixteen years, engaged principally in farming. He came from that county, to Cass county, Iowa, in the summer of 1878, and in the following fall his father also came. They located in Lewis, where they have since resided. Mr. Jones was married in Iowa county, Wisconsin, October 25, 1869, to Elizabeth B. Bainbridge, a native of that state. Her father, William Bainbridge, was one of the earliest settlers in Dubuque, and is now a resident of Iowa county, Wisconsin, where he operates a grist mill. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have four children living--Mary B, John R., Julia E., and Louisa A. One daughter, Carrie A., died April 30, 1883, at the age of twelve years.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 538.
