BIO: Thomas MacDowell JONES, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, pages 349-350.
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  JONES, THOMAS MacDOWELL, associate editor of the Harrisburg Daily 
Telegraph, was born in Hollidaysburg, Blair county, August 31, 1850.  
His father was Uriah James Jones, the historian, author and journalist, 
who in 1860 removed to Harrisburg.  Mr. Jones was educated in the 
public schools of Harrisburg, and in 1867 started to learn the trade of 
printer.  After finishing his trade he secured a situation in the 
composing room of the Telegraph under the late George Bergner in 1872, 
and at various times from 1875 to 1877 acted as city editor.  In July, 
1877, he succeeded John G. Ingram as the city editor, and has been on 
the staff of the paper ever since.  Mr. Jones is a correspondent for 
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago and New York newspapers, and during 
the session of the Legislature he is engaged as reporter in that body.  
His acquaintance with public men is very large.  When twelve years old 
Mr. Jones enlisted in the army, joining the unattached company of Capt. 
DeWitt C. James, of Warren, which was camped in Harrisburg at the time, 
serving eighteen months.  Unfortunately, while he was enlisted he was 
not mustered, and as a consequence his name does not appear on the 
rolls.  He married, in June 1890, Miss Mabel Cronise, of Toledo, Ohio, 
and has one daughter, Dorothea.