Howard-Miami County IN Archives Biographies.....Jones, George B. 1864 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow

GEORGE B. JONES.

    The following is a brief sketch of the life of one who, by close attention
to business, has achieved marked success in the world's affairs and risen to an
honorable position among the enterprising men of the city with which his
interests are identified. It is a plain record, rendered remarkable by no
strange or mysterious adventure, no wonderful and lucky accident and no tragic
situation. Mr. Jones is one of those estimable characters whose integrity and
strong personality must force them into an admirable notoriety, which their
modesty never seeks, who command the respect of their contemporaries and their
posterity and leave the impress of their individuality upon the age in which
they live.

   George B. Jones is an American by adoption, but none the less a lover of the
great Republic in which the greater part of his life has been spent, and an
ardent admirer of the free institutions under which his success has been
achieved. He was born March 24, 1864, in England, the son of John and Elizabeth
Jones, also natives of that country, and representatives of the farming class of
Shropshire, where their home was situated. Amid the beautiful rural scenes of
his native land, the early years of the subject were passed and he there learned
the lessons of industry and self-reliance which, in subsequent life, contributed
so largely to his advancement and enabled him to make his presence felt among
his fellow men. Circumstances surrounding his early life were such that at the
age of nine years, in company with an uncle, he left the home of his childhood
to seek a new home and a new career in the great Republic beyond the sea,
sailing on the 8th day of September, 1873, and landing on the 24th of the same
month at Norfolk, Virginia. From that place he went to Ironton, Ohio, where he
and his relative secured employment and later he attended the schools of Ironton
until completing the first year of the high school course. When not in school he
worked on a farm in the vicinity of the city and was thus employed until his
twentieth year, when he entered a stove foundry, known as the Witman Stove
Company, where he labored from April 26, 1884, until the destruction of the
plant by fire, on November 1, 1889. In the latter year Mr. Jones went to Piqua,
Ohio, where he was engaged with the Favorite Stove & Range Company until 1896,
in November of which year he resigned his position and, with W. J. Smith, John
Kemp and others, organized the Co-operative Ideal Stove & Foundry Company at
Daleville, Indiana, continuing with the same until the dissolution of the firm
three years later. When the latter enterprise ceased operations, Mr. Jones came
to Kokomo, and on June 1, 1900, entered the employ of the Globe Stove & Range
Company, as general superintendent of the foundry, the post he now so ably and
worthily holds. He is not only officially connected with the above enterprise
but is also a stockholder in the same and for three years was a member of the
board of directors. His relations with the management have always been of the
most pleasant and agreeable nature, while between himself and employees,
feelings of the utmost esteem and good will have ever obtained. He is a born
leader, who fully appreciates the aims and desires of those under him and by
securing their confidence and working to their interests, he has never
experienced any of the troubles and difficulties which come to so many
industrial establishments, but on the contrary his services have never failed to
advance the interests of his employer and make for the success of the enterprise
with which he has been identified.

   Mr. Jones has been a careful student of public and political questions and is
well informed on the leading issues of the day. He was a Republican until 1896.
at which time he transferred his allegiance to the Democracy and rendered
valuable service to the ticket, stumping Miami county in the interests of
William Jennings Bryan and winning many votes by his clear and able presentation
and discussion of the questions then before the people. He is an able and
effective speaker, a good logician and commands the attention of his audiences,
not only by appealing to their reason, but also by the ease and freedom with
which he presents and maintains the soundness of his position.

   Jennie B. Pauley, who became the wife of Mr. Jones, was born February 6,
1804, at Gallipolis, Ohio, and departed this life on the 23d of May, 1908,
leaving besides her husband, one child to mourn her loss, a son, Walter B.,
whose birth occurred on February 2d, of the year 1891, and who is now a student
in the Kokomo high school. Fraternally Mr. Jones is a member of the Knights of
Pythias, Modern Woodmen, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and takes
an active and prominent part in promoting the interests of these organizations,
besides filling at various times positions of honor and trust in each. He is a
wide-awake, enterprising man of the times, fully alive to the dignities and
responsibilities of citizenship, and to the extent of his ability, contributes
to the material prosperity of the community and to the social, intellectual and
moral advancement of the populace. Courteous, affable and easily approached, he
commands the respect of all with whom he comes in contact, and his friends are
as the number of his acquaintances. While a power in the industrial circles of
Kokomo, he is universally esteemed in all the relations of life, and his career
thus far has been creditable to himself and an honor to the city which he has
elected to be his permanent place of abode.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)

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