CHARLES JOHNSON JONES - Biography

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This biography appears on page 643-644 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


CHARLES JOHNSON JONES, born in New Hampshire, 1811, eeme to Wisconsin in
1843, locating at Wheatland, where he farmed for two years; in 1845 came
to Burlington, and was engaged in teaching school for eighteen months;
then went into the hotel business, which he continued, eleven years; in
1874, Mr. Jones removed the frame building formerly occupied as a hotel,
and erected elegant brick hotel and business block. He married in 1835,
Miss Hanna P. Cross, a native of New Hampshire, she died in Burlington
in 1848; they had one child, a girl; married again in 1852, Miss Nancy
B. Taylor, a native of Vermont; she died in Burlington, in 1871 - they
had one child, a boy, Family, members Congregational Church.