Robert D. Jones Biography


	This biography appears on pages 482-485 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				ROBERT D. JONES. 

	Robert D. Jones, a successful young attorney of Milbank, is a 
native son of Grant county, born June 14, 1890, of the marriage of 
Harry E. and Maude A. (Dunbrack) Jones. His paternal grandfather, 
Robert E. Jones, was born in Wisconsin and about 1885 homesteaded land 
in South Dakota, upon which he continued to reside until his demise. 
Harry E. Jones was born in Humboldt, Iowa, in 1868 and came to South 
Dakota when eighteen years of age. At that time he possessed but one 
dollar and made his home with his parents while attending school in 
Milbank. He later learned telegraphy and also engaged in teaching 
school for a time. At length he secured employment in a bank and has 
since prospered, winning a gratifying measure of success. He is now 
engaged in the hardware and farm implement business in Revillo, South 
Dakota, and is also connected with banking interests there. He gives 
his political allegiance to the republican party, his religious faith 
is indicated by his membership in the Congregational church and 
fraternally he belongs to the Workmen. His wife was born in Long Lake, 
Minnesota, in 1869 and is also still living. They are the parents of 
eight children: Robert D.; Verna, who is teaching in Big Stone; Alta, a 
teacher at Carthage; Evan Raymond, who is attending Hamline University 
at St. Paul, Minnesota; Marguerite, also a student in that school; and 
Lucille, Milton and Quentin, attending the public schools. 

	Robert D. Jones acquired his early education in the public 
schools and later attended the State Agricultural College at Brookings, 
from which he was graduated in 1909. He then spent two and a half years 
as a student in the University of Minnesota, after which he entered the 
law office of Thomas C. Daggett in St. Paul. In 1912 he was admitted to 
the Minnesota bar and practiced his profession in Minneapolis until 
January, 1914. In May of that year he was admitted to the South Dakota 
bar and has since been located at Milbank. He has been accorded a good 
practice since first opening an office and has the confidence and 
respect of his professional brethren. He possesses a mind that is 
naturally incisive and logical, and his thorough educational training 
has not only made him familiar with statute law and precedent but has 
also disciplined and trained his mental faculties so that he seldom 
fails in discriminating between the essential and nonessential in the 
preparation and trial of his cases. 

	On the 14th of June, 1913, occurred the marriage of Mr. Jones and 
Miss Stella Bernice Case, a daughter of George W. Case, an attorney of 
Watertown, South Dakota. To this marriage has been born a daughter, 
Roberta, whose birth occurred on the 19th of February, 1915. 

	Mr. Jones is a republican but has been too busy in his practice 
to take an active part in politics. He belongs to the Modern Woodmen 
and to the Knights of Pythias and is also a member of the following 
college fraternities: the Alpha Kappa Phi, Theta Delta Phi and the Phi 
Kappa Sigma. As a lawyer he has gained an unusual measure of success 
for one of his years, and personally he is very popular in Milbank and 
Grant county.