Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Jones, Joseph P. 1844 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

HON. JOSEPH P. JONES.—The subject of this sketch, whose portrait will be found
in this History, was born in Owen county, Indiana, January 27, 1844. In the year
1853, Mr. Jones being then nine years old, his parents moved to Marion county,
Oregon, where he attended the common schools, and, afterwards, entering the
Willamette University, at Salem, there received a thorough scholastic training,
and finally graduated, Artium Baccalaureus, in 1864. In 1865, he returned to his
native Indiana, matriculated at the State University in Bloomington, where he
entered upon the study of law, and graduated therefrom in 1867. His legal
curriculum finished, he returned to his home in Oregon, but shortly after
located at the mines in the northern portion of California, where he resided
until December, 1869. In that year he came to Martinez, Contra Costa county, and
entered upon the practice of his profession, in which he has achieved
considerable success. Upon the election of H. Mills to the post of District
Attorney, Mr. Jones was appointed Deputy to the office, and continued as such
until the Fall of 1875, when he was nominated and elected on the Republican
ticket to the office of District Attorney, the functions of which he held until
March, 1878. After a lapse of two years, Mr. Jones once more entered the
political arena, and in the Fall of 1880 was called to the House of Assembly,
and served at the general and extra sessions of the Legislature, being a member
of the Judiciary Committee, as well as Chairman of the Committee on Federal
Relations. Our subject is now practicing his profession in partnership with H.
Mills, a lawyer long associated with Contra Costa, under the style of Mills &
Jones. He married in Martinez, February 2, 1870, Jennie Frazer, a native of
Oregon, and has three surviving children, viz: Madison R., Thomas Rodney and
Carl Richard.

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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