Edward Jones

As printed in 1905

HON. EDWARD H. JONES.

E. H. Jones, probate judge of Butler county, Ohio, was born in Gomer. Ohio. February 2, 1865. He is a son of Edward and Ann (Evans) Jones. His father was a native of Wales and his mother was of Welsh descent, though a native of Ohio. The paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Edward Jones, was a farmer in Wales, and came to America in 1842, dying at Gomer, Allen county, Ohio. He was a devout member of the Congregational church, in which faith he zealously reared his family of two sons and two daughters. The maternal grandfather of Edward H. Jones was John Evans, a native of Wales, born in 1795. He located, with his family, at Shandon, then known as “Paddy’s Run,” in Butler county. There his days were ended in 1890, at the age of ninety-four years. He spent his life in agricultural pursuits and, by industry and prudent investments, accumulated a handsome property.

Edward H. Jones, of this review, was reared and educated mostly in Butler county. He began his educational career in the public schools at Shandon, and then he was engaged in the mercantile business for about two years. He entered the employ of an uncle at Gomer, Ohio, and remained there as a clerk in a general store for a year or more. He was employed as a teacher in the public school at Shandon for four years, and while thus engaged began the preliminary work in the study of law. He was a student of Miami University for a time and spent his vacations in reading law in the office of Morey, Andrews & Morey, in Hamilton. Mr. Jones was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 189.1, and admitted to the bar immediately thereafter. He began his professional career in Hamilton, and was successful from the start as an attorney and counsellor at law.

Mr. Jones was elected clerk of the board of deputy state supervisors of elections in 1891, and served several years as a member of that board. He also served the city of Hamilton in the office of city solicitor, a ' position he held for two terms. His success in the practice of law and the popularity attained through his geniality made him a logical candidate for higher official honors, and he received the nomination for the office of probate judge, as a Democrat, and was triumphantly elected in 1899, being his own successor in 1902. Judge Jones is a thor-

High student and well versed in the intricacies of legal lore. He is popular with all classes, and is an active, public-spirited citizen who stands very high in social and political functions of the city and county.

Edward H. Jones was married on the 6th of August, 1891, to Miss Elba, daughter of C. E. and Phoebe Butterfield, to which union have been born two children, Gordon B.. aged ten years, and Frances C., aged six years. Judge Jones is an active member of the Knights of Pythias.

As printed in Centennial History of Butler County, Ohio (1905). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.