Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Jones, Charles W. 1880 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Charles W. Jones, proprietor of the Jones Bicycle and Sporting Goods House,
of Wichita, Kan., is a native of the city, having been born in 1880. He is the
son of G. W. C. and Minnie (York) Jones, natives of New Zealand and England,
respectively, who came to Wichita in the early '70s. The elder Jones was for a
time prosecuting attorney of Sedgwick county. Charles W. Jones was educated in
the public schools of Wichita, and while gaining an education acted for five
years as a carrier boy for one of the newspapers of the city. While so employed
the paper started a voting contest, offering as a prize a scholarship in a
correspondence school. Young Jones had every one of his long line of customers
campaigning for him and he easily won by a large majority, and selected
electrical engineering. Mr. Jones' first employment was with the firm of
Musselman Bros., then the only bicycle and sporting goods concern of any size in
Wichita. He remained with this firm for some years, leaving it to go with the
Wichita Auto Company in the repair department, and became thoroughly skilled in
all the intricate details of any sort of motor mechanism. In the fall of 1909 he
left the automobile company and organized his present business at No. 209 North
Main street. From the start he was more than successful. The first morning he
opened up and before his fixtures or half the stock had arrived he sold three
bicycles and a lot of supplies that made him gasp at the rosy inauguration. Mr.
Jones is an eager sportsman, a hunter, rod and fly expert, baseball enthusiast,
bicyclist, and lover of every athletic diversion where one can absorb pure fresh
air. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and an enthusiastic member of the
Masonic fraternity. He was married in 1908 to Miss Edith Fegtly.



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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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