BIOGRAPHY: Philip H. 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. 193-4
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PHILIP H. JONES, a prosperous and influential farmer and lumber dealer of 
Blacklick township, this county, is a son of Edward and Sarah (Price) Jones, and 
was born in Blacklick township, July 28, 1841. His father, Edward Jones, was 
born near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales, where he was reared and educated. He 
emigrated to America about 1829, locating first in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 
About 1831 he removed to Cambria county and purchased land in Blacklick 
township, where he cleared a farm and followed the avocation of a farmer the 
remainder of his life. Before leaving Wales, he married Miss Sarah Price, and 
their union was blessed in the birth of nine children, of whom Philip H., the 
subject of his memoir, is the youngest. Mr. Jones, Sr., died on his farm in 
1877. Philip H. Jones was reared on the farm, and received his education in the 
common schools of his township. Being reared on a farm, he naturally took to 
farming as a means of securing a livelihood. He is a progressive and extensive 
farmer, owning a farm of three hundred acres in Blacklick township, of which one 
hundred acres are cleared, the remainder in timber, and a farm of one hundred 
and forty-three acres in Jackson township. He has for a number of years been 
extensively engaged in the lumber business, in connection with which he has a 
water-mill on his farm, and owns one half interest in a steam saw and shingle 
mill in Blacklick township. In this line of business he has shown rare good 
judgment and business tact, and has pursued it with more than an ordinary degree 
of success.
      June 12, 1861, he gave up the life of a farmer for that of a soldier, and 
enlisted in the defense of the imperilled liberties of his country. He entered 
company A, Eleventh regiment, Pennsylvania Reserve infantry, and served three 
years. The following is a list of battles in which he participated: battle of 
Cold Harbor; then he was taken prisoner at Gaines' Mills, and sent to Richmond 
and Belle Isle, where he remained from June 28, 1862, until August 8, 1862. His 
next engagement was the second battle of Bull Run; then followed Gettysburg, 
White Hall Church, Mine Run, battle of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court 
House, Fountain Farm and Bethesda Church. Although   wounded slightly several 
times, he was never off duty on account of his injuries. He received his 
discharge at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, June 12, 1864. He is a member of the Emory 
Fisher Post, No. 30, at Johnstown, this county, and of Council No. 182, Jr. O. 
U. A. M., and is an influential member of the Farmers' Grange of this county. In 
political opinion he is a republican, and has served for six terms as school 
director in his township. He served seven years in company A, Fifth regiment, 
National Guards of Pennsylvania.
      July 3, 1871, he married Miss Diana Shoeman, a daughter of John Shoeman, 
of Jackson township, and to this union six children have been born: Jennie and 
Harry, who were burned to death at the time of the burning of their home, 
February 23, 1875; Minnie M., the wife of Samuel Marks; Rachel, Lucy, and Clara 
May, all at home.