Byron P. Jones Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1106-1107 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	BYRON P. JONES, of Prosper township, Davison county, was born 
on a farm in Rensselaer county, New York, on the 25th of February, 1855, 
being the youngest of the three children of Augustus and Margaret 
(Jones) Jones. His sister, Eudora, is now the wife of N. H. Dumbolton, 
of Rockford, Iowa, and his brother, James Irving, is a resident of 
Rockford, Iowa. When the subject was twelve years of age his parents 
removed to Wisconsin, and in 1868 they took up his residence in Floyd 
county, Iowa, where they passed the remainder of their lives. The 
educational advantages afforded the subject were somewhat limited, being 
confined to a somewhat irregular attendance in the common schools of New 
York and Wisconsin. He was thirteen years of age at the time of the 
removal to Iowa, and there he continued to make his home until he had 
attained manhood, being engaged in farm work during the intervening 
years. 

	In 1879 he came as a pioneer to South Dakota, taking up a 
homestead claim of one hundred and sixty acres, in what is now Prosper 
township, Davison county, and later securing a preemption claim of equal 
area, the two tracts constituting his present farm, the major portion of 
which he has brought under a high state of cultivation, while he has 
erected a substantial dwelling and other good buildings, constructed 
fences about the place and otherwise brought it up to a model status. He 
is a Republican in politics and is known as a loyal and public-spirited 
citizen. Fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen, and both he and his wife are valued members of the Presbyterian 
church, in whose work they take a zealous interest. 

	On the 21st of March, 1881, Mr. Jones was united in marriage to 
Miss Huldah Emma Colby, who was born and reared in Illinois and who was 
a resident of Rockford county, Iowa, at the time of her marriage, being 
a daughter of Eben and Mary Colby. Of this union have been born five 
children, all of whom are living, namely: Margie, Blanche, May, Ethel 
and Ella.