Coconino County AZ Archives Biographies.....Jones, John B. 1862 - living 1901
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Portrait and Biographical Record of Arizona (Chicago:  Chapman Publishing Co., 
1901), pp. 374-375

Transcribed by:  Connie Sheets, 1 May 2006

John B. Jones

As a stranger among unaccustomed surroundings, and with little to depend on 
save his own perseverance and determination to succeed, Mr. Jones came to 
Arizona in 1892, and has, step by step, forged his way to the front in the face 
of discouragement and obstacles, and is now one of the successful citizens of 
Williams.  He was born in Orange county, N.C., in 1862, and was reared and 
educated in Chatham county, whither his parents had in the mean time removed.  
It was not until 1892 that he left the surroundings of his youth and came to 
Coconino county, Ariz., a contrast indeed from the peaceful agricultural life 
of an old and settled country.

In Arizona Mr. Jones started a mercantile business at Challender, Coconino 
county, and after four years went to Flagstaff, where he remained for a year.  
He later had a store at Enterprise, and a saw-mill, which he successfully 
conducted until 1897, when he located in Williams.  Here he has a well-managed 
general merchandise store, stocked with the things most in demand in a town 
located in the midst of a splendid timber and grazing country, and sheltering 
inhabitants from all parts of the United States and Europe.  Added to a keen 
financial ability, the enterprising storekeeper is affable in manner and 
sincerely desirous of pleasing, all of which adds to his popularity and draws 
customers.  He is extensively interested in mining in the Grand can(y)on, and 
has some good prospects, and also owns eighteen lots in the city of Williams.  
He has done much to further the interests of the city, and spares neither time 
nor expense when the well-being of the citizens is the question for 
consideration.

In national politics Mr. Jones is an uncompromising Democrat.  Besides several 
other local offices held in the past, he was elected a member of the board of 
supervisors of Coconino county in November of 1898, serving for two years.  In 
1900 he was appointed assessor of Coconino county, and is now serving in that 
office.  In fraternal circles he is very prominent, and is affiliated with the 
Masons and Elks at Flagstaff, and with the Woodmen and Red Men of Williams, of 
which latter organization he is treasurer.  Mr. Jones was married in Boston, 
Mass., August 20, 1896, to Maud M. Jordan, a native of Maine.  They have one 
child, H. Leon, aged four years.



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