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OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest                    Volume 99 : Issue 527

Today's Topics:
  #1 A. JONES - GRANT COUNTY INDIANA      [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]


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CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF GRANT COUNTY INDIANA 1812-1912
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1914
Page 1281-1282

        A. JONES.  Probably no educational institution in Marion has more
practical relation to the business community and to the individual welfare
of many young men and women, that the Marion Normal College, which has now
completed more than twenty years of successful work and is recognized as
one of the leading educational institutions in this part of Indiana. The
founder and president, Mr. A. Jones, has gained a local reputation as an
educator and within a few years of its founding the Normal School has
gained a more substantial footing than many of the older educational
institutions.
        The Marion Normal College was organized in 1891 by Professor Jones
with a corps of four instructors. The first quarters were in the building
at the corner of Thirty-eighth and Washington Streets. The curriculum
during the first year comprised a business course, music and some academic
work. Being a practical educator and a superintendent of public schools,
Professor Jones was quick to see the need of high grade work for the
thorough preparation of teachers. With this purpose in view the business
course was discontinued and a four year course adopted, embracing both
theoretical and academic work. Both the scope and quality of the
instruction was raised to as high a plane as that in the average state
Normal schools. The Normal College maintains a four year course for general
student, courses in science, mathematics and literature taking the place of
the studies in professional course. In 1894 the college was moved from its
first location to an attractive building between Washington and Harmon
Streets, this building having been erected expressly for the use of the
college by Dr. T.W. Johnson and Professor A. Jones the proprietors. The
college building is of brick, occupying a ground space of ninety by eighty
feet, three stories high with basement, its chapel having a capacity of
five hundred seats. It possesses all the modern improvements of school
architecture and includes laboratories for scientific work.
        Professor A. Jones was born in Shelby county, Indiana, in 1855, and
was the only child of Elijah and Sarah (Wagner) Jones, both parents being
also natives of Indiana. The paternal ancestors came from Scotland, and
were among the early settlers of Pennsylvania, while the Wagner family came
from Germany and traced a kinship with the same family to which the noted
composer Richard Wagner belonged. Both families came to Indiana among the
early settlers and were prominent in the counties of Shelby and Rush.
Grandfather Jones and great grandfather Wagner were both well known
ministers in the Methodist church.
        Professor Jones was reared in Shelby county, and attained much of
his early education at Danville, where he completed a teacher's and
scientific course and also graduated from the department of Civil
Engineering. His first experience as a teacher was in the grade schools at
Glenwood, Indiana, where he spent two years, and then for four years had
charge of the public schools at Bronsville, Indiana. His last experience in
public school work was as superintendent of the schools of Danville, and
from there in 1891 he came to Marion, and laid the foundation for the
present splendid Normal College. As a student his inclination for many
years has been along scientific lines, and he has done much investigation
with the microscope, with results that have been both pleasing and
profitable to him. He takes an active interest in all lines of educational
work, and has served as editor of the teachers' journal.
        In 1884 Professor Jones married Jessie M. Davis, who was born in
Fayette county, Indiana, a daughter of William and Emily (Williams) Davis,
her family having been residents of Glenwood, Indiana. Professor Jones and
family worship in the First Methodist church at Marion.

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