Butte-Colusa County CA Archives Biographies.....Jones, Albert Foster 1858 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

    ALBERT FOSTER JONES, a member of the bar of Butte county, was the son of
George Foster Jones, an old resident of the county. Albert was born at Colby's
Landing, Colusa county, California, February 14, 1858. He lived with his parents
at Colusa until 1867, and then removed to Chico, attending school at that place
until thirteen years of age. He then worked in his father's store as errand-boy
and clerk until nearly seventeen. In 1873, Mr. Jones became a student at the
Golden Gate Academy, Oakland, and later at the University Mound College, San
Francisco, where he remained until 1875. For nine months he held a clerkship in
a grocery-store at Chico. Being an earnest student, he returned in May, 1876, to
the University Mound College, to prepare for a course at Yale. During the
following year he went east, and entered the philosophical department of that
renowned seat of learning. One year later, he entered the law department, and
continuing his studies in both departments, graduated on the twenty-sixth of
June, 1879, being the sixth in his class, and receiving the degree of L.L.B. On
the following day he was admitted to practice in all the courts of the state of
Connecticut. During his collegiate course he was an energetic student, and, at
the same time, took a leading part in athletic sports, carrying off several
prizes at running and rowing. Mr. Jones then returned to California, and was
admitted to practice in the supreme court of this state August 1, 1879. He
located in Oroville, and almost immediately gained a lucrative and successful
practice, by prompt attention to business. He was appointed, March 5, 1881,
judge-advocate on the staff of the general commanding the fifth brigade, N. G.
C., with the rank of major. He was nominated for the office of
district-attorney, by the democrats, in 1880, but no election was held. During
the presidential campaign of 1880, he stumped Butte county with Hon. Leon D.
Freer. In December of that year, he entered into a law-partnership with John
Gale, doing business under the firm name of Gale & Jones. He now holds the
position of grand lecturer of the Grand Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West,
and is prominently spoken of as the coming grand-president of the order. On the
twenty-first of December, 1881, he was united in marriage to Miss May S. Evans,
of Marysville.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,
IN TWO VOLUMES.

I.
HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1513 TO 1850.
BY FRANK T. GILBERT.

The Great Fur Companies and their Trapping Expeditions to California.
Settlement of the Sacramento Valley. 
The Discovery of Gold in California.
BY HARRY L. WELLS.

II.
HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY,
From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. 
BY HARRY L. WELLS AND W. L. CHAMBERS.

BOTH VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS AND PORTRAITS.
HARRY L. WELLS,
517 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
1882.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by HARRY L. WELLS, in
the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

FRANCIS, VALENTINE & Co., Engravers & Printers
517 Clay St., San Francisco

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