Biography of Quince Jones - Raleigh Co. WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New 
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III, 
pg. 456 


QUINCE JONES. Starting without a cent of his own or of 
borrowed capital at the age of twenty-one. Quince Jones in 
twenty years has earned the right to be classed among West 
Virginia's bankers, capitalists and men of affairs. His 
home for a number of years has been at South Charleston, 
and he has been one of the actuating principals in the 
development of that prosperous young city.
Mr. Jones was born in 1881 in Raleigh County, where he 
was reared in the home and on the farm of his parents, Dan 
and Fannie (Mankin) Jones, residents of Raleigh County. 
He attended the free public schools, worked on the farm, and 
in 1901 left home and connected himself with the lumber 
business in the Mankin Lumber Company at Oak Hill in 
Fayette County. There he learned the fundamentals of the 
business which has been the basis of his solid prosperity. 
He was with the Mankin Company until 1908. In that 
year he entered the mercantile business at Colcord in Raleigh 
County. He furnishes contracts for logs to the Bowman 
Lumber Company of St. Albans. The headquarters of his 
timber business are at Coal River, and in conjunction he 
conducts a large general store.
In 1915 Mr. Jones removed to South Charleston. He is 
president of the First National Bank of South Charleston, a 
financial institution which gained additional resources and 
capital by absorbing the Bank of South Charleston in Sep- 
tember, 1921. This bank handles the financial affairs of 
the City of South Charleston. Besides his banking interests 
Mr. Jones owns business and residence property, and in the 
fall of 1921 built and owns a modern picture show house. 
His own home is a spacious brick residence on the hill at 
Montrose.
Mr. Jones is president of the London District School 
Board and is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner. He 
married Miss Ella Milem, of Raleigh County, and their three 
children are Daryl, Basil and Quince, Jr.


Submitted by Valerie F. Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> 

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