Bio of JONES, Arthur E., Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol II, pg 737-738
ARTHUR E. JONES
The value of knowing more than anyone else about some one thing is again
illus­trated in the career of Arthur E. Jones, a heating and ventilating expert
of Minneapolis. Mr. Jones was born on a farm in Hennepin county, Minnesota, and
is the son of Charles and Philena (Sayers) Jones. Charles Jones was a native of
Kentucky and a representative of an old American family of Scotch origin. Arthur
E. Jones spent his boyhood after the fashion of most country boys, getting an
elementary education in the grade schools and entering high school at the age of
fourteen. When he was seventeen he passed the Hennepin county examinations for
graduation. He came to Minneapolis when he was eighteen and secured a position
as a collector for a manufacturing concern. In this city he became interested in
the problems of heating and ventilating, to which he has devoted years of
careful study. Eventually, he decided to go into business for himself. He bought
the building at 3005-3007 Hennepin avenue and started out in the hardware,
heating and ventilating business, in which he has been most Successful. In 1919
he formed the firm of Jones & Sawyer, of which he is the president Recently he
sold out the hardware branch of the business and is now devoting his entire
attention to heating and ventilating. The importance of these factors in
rela­tion to public and personal health is now generally recognized and their
study has reached the status of scientific engineering. By putting his theories
into successful practice in the Twin cities and their suburbs Mr. Jones has been
doing a work of no inconsiderable value to the community welfare. In this
connection he has introduced into Minneapolis the Twentieth Century Heating
System, and also the Round Oak Moistair System, which has recently opened at No.
510 West Lake street, under the firm name of Builders Cooperative Heating
Company.
In 1887 occurred the marriage of Mr. Jones and Miss Mary Humiston, a niece of
Frank H. Humiston, one of the trustees of the University of Minnesota. The
Humiston family was one of the first to settle in Worthington, Minnesota, which
was started as a temperance colony. Mrs. Jones' uncle was living in New Ulm at
the time of the terrible Sioux massacre in 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have two
daughters, Marjorie and Marian.
The religious faith of Mr. Jones is that of the Methodist Episcopal church, and
he has served on the official board of the Joyce Methodist church for many
years. All of his life he has been an ardent supporter of the prohibition
movement, as was his father. He was one of the organizers of the Calhoun
Commercial Club and also of the Calhoun State Bank, and has been one of the
directors in each ever since. Mr. Jones may be truly called a self-made man, for
his success is due entirely to his own honest efforts. Equipped with a good mind
and the will to do, he has worked his way steadily to the front by painstaking
study, hard work, and the judicious use of his opportunities.