David W. Jones Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1019-1020 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and 
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				DAVID W. JONES. 

	Agricultural and stock-raising interests have a prominent 
representative in D. W. Jones, who owns and operates a farm of three 
hundred and twenty acres on sections 32 and 29, Harmony township, Spink 
county. He was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, on the 7th of February, 
1872, a son of John N. and Ann (Davis) Jones. The family is of Welsh 
descent and Mr. Jones manifests the resoluteness and determination of 
character of his race. His father was a farmer by occupation and 
settled in Kansas in 1869, buying raw land in that state. He improved 
and cultivated it until his death, which occurred on the 6th of May, 
1892, when he was sixty-six years of age. The mother survived him until 
May 12, 1904, when she passed away at the age of sixty-two years. Both 
are buried in the Evergreen cemetery at Fort Scott. 

	D. W. Jones received good educational advantages, as he attended 
the Fort Scott schools until he was a youth of seventeen. He then 
devoted his time to assisting his father with the work upon the farm 
for a number of years. In 1897 he came to South Dakota and bought the 
property which he now owns. Although he does mixed farming, he gives 
especial attention to the raising of pure blooded stock, which branch 
of his activities proves very profitable. He keeps two hundred head of 
cattle, about forty horses and about one hundred and fifty hogs and is 
one of the extensive stockmen of Spink county. As he has a high grade 
of stock and takes good care of them, his animals command a high price. 

	Mr. Jones is independent in politics, voting for the man rather 
than the party and refusing to be dictated to by politicians. He has 
been very successful in his chosen calling and attributes his 
prosperity to hard work and thorough knowledge of the stock-raising 
business. His honorable life and uprightness of character have won for 
him the esteem of his fellow citizens who value his friendship highly.