Henry M. Jones Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1191-1192 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	HENRY M. JONES, general manager of the extensive business of the 
B. C. McClossan Fruit Company, of Sioux Falls, and one of the 
enterprising and popular business men of the state, is a native of Utah, 
having been born in Wasatch, that state, on the 10th of March, 1870, and 
being a son of William and Ellen M. (Keliher) Jones, who came to South 
Dakota in 1877. The father died at Spearfish, this state, in 1886, while 
the mother is still living, maintaining her home in Lead, this state. 
The subject of this review secured his preliminary scholastic training 
in the public schools and then entered the normal school at Spearfish, 
this state, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1887, 
which was the first class graduated in the institution. His father had 
become prominently identified with the cattle industry in this section, 
and until 1886 the subject worked on the great ranges during the summer 
months, spending the winters in school. In 1886 he secured employment in 
the office of the Homestake Mining Company, at Lead, where he remained 
until 1888, when he became traveling salesman for B. C. McClossan, 
wholesale fruit dealer in Sioux Falls, being thus engaged until 1897, 
and thereafter he was employed about one year as traveling salesman for 
a cigar manufactory in Sioux City. In the spring of 1898 Mr. Jones again 
entered the employ of B. C. McClossan and in the fall of the same year 
the business was incorporated, under the present title of the B. C. 
McClossan Fruit Company, Mr. Jones becoming one of the stockholders of 
the concern and being chosen secretary and treasurer of the company, 
while later he was made general manager, in which capacity he has since 
continued to render most effective service, doing much to promote the 
expansion of the successful enterprise with which he is thus identified. 
In politics he has always given his allegiance to the Republican party, 
but he has never sought nor desired the honors or emoluments of public 
office. 

	On the 7th of June, 1899, Mr. Jones was united in marriage with 
Miss Lois Ray, of Salem, Missouri, and they have a winsome little 
daughter, Linne Lois, who was born on the 19th of May, 1901.