Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Jones, John W. 1822 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JOHN W. JONES.—This much respected old pioneer, the subject of our sketch, was
born in Henry county, Kentucky, January 28, 1822. When but an infant his parents
moved to Harrison county, Indiana, and after a short residence there removed to
Meade county, Kentucky, where he was educated at the common schools, and resided
until fourteen years of age. In 1836 he moved west to Scott county, Illinois,
where he resided for two years, and then moved to Platte county, Missouri, where
he engaged in farming until the Spring of 1844. He then spent the next three
years in boating on the Mississippi river, and in 1847 again settled in Scott
county, Illinois, where he resided until March, 1853, when, with ox-teams, and
accompanied by his wife and family, he started to cross the plains to the Golden
State; after a trip of six months he arrived at his brother's place in
Lafayette, Contra Costa county, where he remained the first year, and in
October, 1855, bought his present valuable place, consisting of three hundred
and ten acres one mile southwest of Walnut Creek, where he is engaged in general
farming and stock-raising. Mr. Jones was united in marriage in Exeter, Illinois,
May 30, 1852, to Miss Martha J. Arnold, a native of Tennessee, by which union
they have one son: Henry T.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.

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