BIOGRAPHY: Henry JONES, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 92-3
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HENRY JONES, a successful and substantial farmer of Cambria township, Cambria 
county, Pennsylvania, is of Welsh birth and parentage, born in Llanelly, 
Carmarthenshire, March 12, 1841.
     His father, James Jones, who was a skilled artisan, died in July, 1842, 
when Henry was but fourteen months old; and his mother (Miss Margaret Roberts 
Jones) afterwards wedded John Phillip, who reared young Jones to manhood, and 
gave him such mental training as the common schools afforded. He learned the 
trade of a copper-smelter, in which he became a skilled and proficient workman, 
and which he continued until 1871, in his native country and in Baltimore, 
Maryland. He located in Baltimore in 1865, and in 1871 removed to his present 
farm of one hundred and sixty-nine (169) acres, situated three miles north of 
Ebensburg, this county. He is a careful and methodical farmer, and has been 
successful from the very beginning. He is a member of the State Grange, and 
takes an intelligent interest in all matters pertaining to the art of husbandry. 
He subscribes to the tenets of the Calvinistic Methodist church, in which he is 
an active worker, having been deacon of the church since 1891.
     In 1869, he married Mary Evans, a daughter of E. J. Evans, of Cambria 
township, and to them have been born three sons: Arthur, at home; Ambrose, a 
laborer on a farm of Johnson county, Iowa; and William H., at home.
     Mr. Jones is regarded as a good citizen, and is held in high esteem by his 
many friends and associates.