Biographical Sketch of Thomas M. Jones, Phelps County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Thomas M. Jones, attorney at law, and real estate and insurance agent
of the firm of Frost & Jones, was born in Pulaski County, Mo., in 1861,
being the eldest of five surviving children born to the marriage of 
Thomas A. Jones and Cynthia Leake, natives, respectively, of Indiana
and Virginia.  The father was born in Indianapolis in 1838, and when 
about nine years of age came with his father, John G. Jones, to where
Washington, Mo., is now located, where he was reared to manhood.  He 
was married in and has been a resident of Pulaski county for over 
twenty years, and is a prominent Baptist minister.  His father, John G.
was a cabinet maker by trade, and died in 1862 in Pulaski County.  His
father, the great-grandfather of our subject, Thomas A. Jones, came 
from Wales at a very early day, his wife being a native of Scotland.
William Leake, the maternal grandfather, was born, reared and married
in Virginia, and about 1833 came to Missouri, locating in Pulaski Co.,
where he died in 1873, aged ninety years.  He was a soldier in the War 
of 1812, and was a well to do farmer.  His father, William Leake, was a
Revolutionary soldier, and died in Virginia.  Thomas M. Jones, whose
name heads this sketch, resided on his father's farm until fifteen 
years of age, and from that time until twenty-two years of age was in
school, during which period he studied civil engineering in the Miss-
ouri School of Mines and Metallurgy.  In 1883 he became a member of the
present firm, and gives promise of becoming one of the prosperous 
citizens of the county.  He has been engaged in pedagoguing, his first
term being taught when he was sixteen years of age.  Soon after becom-
ing the partner of Mr. Frost he took up the study of law, and in 1887 
was admitted to the Phelps county bar.  He has been city treasurer for
three years, and is also secretary of the executive committee of the
Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy.  In 1888 he was elected public
administrator for Phelps county.  He is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity, the I. O. O. F., and in politics is a Democrat.  On June
24, 1886, he was married to Miss Lucy B., daughter of William and Lucy
A. Morse, formerly of Massachusetts, and by her is the father of two
children.  She was educated in the public schools of the county and at
the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy.  Her father located in
Rolla during the war, and there died in 1870, having been one of the
prominent merchants of the town.  He also held the office of probate
and associate county judge, and was at one time mayor of Rolla.

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