Sedgwick-Rice County KS Archives Biographies.....Jones, Oliver Winslow 1862 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)


   Oliver Winslow Jones, County Treasurer of Sedgwick county, Kansas, and member
of the Board of Education, Wichita, Kan., is a native of New York state, he
having been born at White Plains, Westchester county, April 10, 1862. His
parents were Oliver Jones and Miriam (Austin) Jones. The education of Mr. Jones
was obtained in what is now the borough of Brooklyn, a part of Greater New York
City, where he attended the public schools, and at Sterling, Kan. In 1875 the
family decided to move to Kansas and located at Sterling, where Mr. Jones was
engaged in school work. In 1886 he was appointed principal of the Hutchinson
schools, where he served for five years with the utmost satisfaction to the
community. He resigned this position to go to Mulvane, Kan., to occupy a similar
position with the schools of that city at a higher rate of compensation, and
where he remained five years, leaving Mulvane to come to Wichita in 1896. In
that year M. J. Loyd appointed Mr. Jones his assistant as County Treasurer, and
for eleven years he served faithfully and ably in this capacity, being retained
in the position through the administrations of two years with D. E. Boone and
all of Euodias Webb's administration. He was nominated on the Republican ticket
in 1908 for County Treasurer and elected, and re-elected November, 1910. Term
expires October, 1913.

   He was married in 1888 to Minnie W. Bush. Four children have been born to
this union, Kenneth K., Donald F., Miriam and Dorothy. Fraternally Mr. Jones is
a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is also a member-of the
Chamber of Commerce and the Riverside Club.


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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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