Butte-Colusa-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Jones, George F. 1828 - 1873
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

    GEORGE F. JONES was born in Hillsboro, New Hampshire, April 4, 1828. At the
age of eighteen he left the parental home and went to Boston to earn a name and
a future for himself. In the year 1849, he came to the Pacific coast, and
hurried to the mines of Georgetown, El Dorado county, where he engaged in
trading and mining. After two years he left for Sacramento, where he remained
but a few months. From thence he went to Shasta county, where, in company with a
Mr. Cady, he built and kept the Canon house. On the first of June, 1853, he
married Miss Sidney Ann McIntosh, the wife who survives him. In 1854, he removed
to the Lone Tree ranch, in Colusa county, where he kept a public house and
raised stock. In 18-59, he was elected sheriff of Colusa county, and was
re-elected in 1861 by the largest majority ever given a public officer in that
county. In 1863, he purchased the mercantile establishment of James N. Suydam,
in Colusa, where he did a flourishing business. In 1866, in company with Mr.
Suydam, he came to Chico and bought the mercantile interest of E. B. Pond. In
1869, Mr. Jones bought out his partner, and conducted the business until he
associated with him Messrs. Harris and Sanderson. In 1871, Mr. Jones, in
partnership with E. J. Eeilly, went into the hardware business, remaining a
partner in this branch of trade until his death, which occurred on the seventh
of November, 1873. As a business man he was public-spirited, scrupulously
honorable and honest in his dealings with his fellow-men, unfailing in his
judgment of financial transactions and ventures, and liberal with his means when
he heard the cry of distress. In all the walks of life he was a good man, a kind
friend and a loving companion. Where he was known his name will be remembered
for many years.

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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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