JONES, WESLEY

JONES

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 10/26/2025 at 20:42:05

BURLINGTON CITY.
(P. O. BURLINGTON)

JONES, WESLEY, wholesale and retail dealer in books, stationery and fancy goods ; born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1839 ; is the son of Wesley Jones, Sr., a native of Maryland, and one of the earliest merchants of the city ; the latter died in 1848, of cholera. During 1864 to 1865, Wesley Jones, Jr., was engaged in mercantile and trading business at Virginia City, Montana ; returning to Burlington, he established himself in 1866, in his present trade.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879