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CHAPTER XXIX.

SOME FORMER RESIDENTS OF SHELBY COUNTY AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. (CONT'D)

C, DURANT JONES.


C. Durant Jones for a number of years was a pastor at Irwin, Iowa, and soon became prominent in the national Prohibition party, in 1912 receiving the nomination for governor of Iowa on that ticket. He is also largely interested and the leading spirit in a large system of chautauquas, which he manages successfully. There are four hundred of these, known as the "Jones System." He now resides at Perry, Iowa.


Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, October, 2023 from the Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, by Edward S. White, P.A., LL. B.,Volume 1, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Co., 1915, pg. 555.


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