James G. Jones Biography, Charles Mix County, SD

	This biography is taken from the "Standard Atlas of Charles Mix 
	County (1906)", published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co. Page 55

	Transcribed by Joy Fisher, sdgenweb@yahoo.com and may be copied for 
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James G. Jones came to Charles Mix county in 1873 and for some years was engaged
in filling wood contracts at Ft. Randall. He and his wife settled on their present 
home farm in 1877, where he has since resided. Mr. Jones has taken a prominent part
politics of the county since its organization serving as county commissioner, 
register of deeds, and other capacities as noted elsewhere. His determined stand 
and speeches for the people's rights in the territorial legislature won for him the 
sobbriquet of "The Charles Mix County Volcano." His son Whitfield Jones, born
May 17, 1878 was the first white child in the old part of the county and his 
second son, Wm. J. Jones, born Nov. 19, 1879, the second.