Harry E. Jones Biography


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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	HARRY E. JONES, cashier of the Bank of Revillo, Grant county, was 
born in Owatonna, Minnesota, on the 23d of November, 1866, and is a son 
of Robert E. and Emily K. (Noyes) Jones, the former of whom was born in 
Ohio and the latter in Vermont. His father located in Minnesota about 
1866, and a few years later removed to Humboldt, Iowa, where he was 
engaged in the hotel business until 1880, when he came to South Dakota 
as one of the early settlers of Grant county and was one of the founders 
of the village of Revillo, where he operated a hotel and served as 
postmaster for a few years. He was one of the influential and honored 
citizens of the county, being public-spirited and progressive and taking 
an active interest in the development and material advancement of the 
county and state. He died in Revillo on the 13th of March, 1903, at the 
age of seventy years, and his devoted wife survives him. They celebrated 
their golden wedding anniversary on Thanksgiving day, 1902. The Jones 
family is of Welsh descent, the paternal grandparents of the subject 
being both born and reared in Wales. The Noyes family is of English 
lineage, and the original representatives in America came over in the 
historic "Mayflower," while the name has ever since been one of 
prominence in the annals of New England. Robert E. and Emily K. Jones 
became the parents of five sons and one daughter. John F. is engaged in 
the grocery business in Revillo; Albert D. is president of the Bank of 
Revillo; Herbert I. is an engineer at Los Angeles, California; Evan died 
at the age of thirty years at Revillo, where he was a partner with his 
brother, J. F.; Grace died in childhood in Iowa; and Harry E. 

	Harry E. Jones was about five years of age at the time of removal 
from Minnesota to Humboldt county, Iowa. He later attended school at 
Milbank, South Dakota, having been eighteen years old at the time of the 
removal to this state. He attended Marion Business College, in St. Paul, 
where he was graduated in 1888. Immediately thereafter he became 
associated with his brother Albert in the establishment of a private 
bank at Revillo, while in 1891 it was incorporated as a state bank. It 
is one of the solid financial concerns of the state and does an 
excellent business, its affairs being conducted upon a basis of ample 
capital and the best of executive management. In 1904 the present fine 
brick building, seventy by fifty feet in dimensions, was completed, 
while a portion of the building is occupied by the hardware 
establishment of Jones Brothers, of which Albert D. and the subject are 
the interested principals. They also are prominently identified with the 
agricultural and stock-growing industry, owning twenty-five hundred 
acres of fine land in this county. Their success is the more gratifying 
from the fact that it is the result of their own efforts. When Harry 
came to the state his financial resources were represented in the sum of 
one dollar, having given up one of the original two dollars which 
represented his patrimony, in order to keep a prized bird dog which he 
brought with him. He read law under the preceptorship of Judge Keeler, 
of Milbank, and was admitted to the bar of the state in 1889. In 
politics he is a staunch adherent of the Republican party, and 
fraternally is identified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, of 
which he has been recorder from the time of the institution of the 
lodge, in 1897. He and his wife are members of the Congregational 
church, he serving as treasurer. 

	On the 1st of June, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Jones 
to Miss Maude Dunbrack, who was born and reared in Hennepin county, 
Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have six children, namely: Robert D., 
Verna N., Alta Maude, Evan R., Marguerite E. and Lucille Marie.