Frederick A. Jones Biography


	This biography appears on page 1886 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	FREDERICK A. JONES, of Minnehaha county, his finely improved and 
valuable farm being located in Sioux Falls township, comes of staunch 
old New England stock, and is himself a native of the Green Mountain 
state, having been born in Stamford, Bennington county, Vermont. He 
secured his rudimentary education in the public schools of his native 
city, and was a lad of seven years at the time of his parents' removal 
to Illinois, where he continued to attend school at intervals, after 
which he was employed on various farms in Illinois until he came to 
what is now the state of South Dakota and became numbered among the 
pioneers of Minnehaha county, purchasing a farm and having ever since 
continued to make his home on the same, while he has brought the land 
under a high state of cultivation and improved it with substantial 
buildings, including an attractive and commodious residence. He has 
planted a nice grove of trees, now well-matured, and everything about 
his farm betokens thrift and prosperity. In politics he has ever 
accorded an uncompromising allegiance to the Democratic party, and has 
been an active worker in its cause, though he has never sought official 
preferment.

	Mr. Jones was married to Miss Cora J. Stoddard, and they have 
seven children.