Edward H. Jones Biography This biography appears on page 580 in "History of Minnehaha County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Joy Fisher, http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000031 . This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm JONES, EDWARD H., is a native of Wisconsin, and was born in December, 1852. He received a high school education. In 1873, he came to Minnehaha county, and took up the northwest quarter of section twenty-four in Benton township as a pre-emption. Besides attending to his claim he worked as collector for C. J. Skinner, who at that time kept an agricultural warehouse in Sioux Falls. He also engaged in breaking and freighting, hauling lumber from Sibley, Iowa, and other places, before the railroad reached this section of the country, and slept about five nights of the week on the ground under his lumber wagon. He lived with R. W. Talcott, kept a cow, and received compliments of the housewives in the village for his skill in buttermaking. A few years later he took up as a homestead the southwest quarter of section twenty-six in Grand Meadow township, where he resided with his family for about ten years. He was the first assessor of Grand Meadow, and was a member of the town board for several years. He sold his farm to Mr. Hirsch, the present owner, and bought a relinquishment comprising a tree claim in the northwest quarter of section four in Hartford township, where he resided until the fall of 1893, when he rented his farm and removed to Sioux Falls and for three years was engaged as clerk in the grocery department of the Bee Hive. Mr. Jones is a good citizen, and has a large circle of acquaintances.