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

ROBINSON M. JONES.—The subject of this sketch is the son of these old pioneers
Nathaniel, and Elizabeth (Allen) Jones, and was born in Buchanan county,
Missouri, July 2, 1844; when but eighteen months old his parents started from
their Missouri home to cross the almost trackless plains and inaccessible
mountains to the Far West, and, after a weary trip of seven months, they arrived
in Chiles' valley, Napa county, where they remained for one year, when they
moved to the redwoods of Contra Costa, where our subject's childhood was spent.
He attended the Lafayette district school, and afterward finished his education
at the San Ramon college near Alamo. In 1867, our subject, in company with a Mr.
Johnson, now of Napa county, engaged in the newspaper business, being editors
and proprietors of the Solano Sentinel of Suisun, in which he remained for one
year. He then returned to this county and followed farming and teaching school
until 1873, when he was elected to the office of County Surveyor; and two years
later was re-elected to the same office, butr esigned in favor of the present
incumbent, Thomas A. McMahon. In 1876, on the completion of the Grangers'
Warehouses at Martinez, Mr. Jones was appointed by the directors to take charge
of the same, in which capacity he has simce remained, with the exception of
seven months, and is now considered by that association the right man in the
right place. Was united in marriage in Lafayette, October 27, 1872, to Miss
Nettie Renwick, a native of California, by which union they have three sons,
whose names are Emmit R., born September 24, 1873; Robert L., born August 22,
1877; Charles, born June 21, 1880.

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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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