Isaac W. Jones

As printed in 1901

ISAAC W. JONES.

The deserved reward of a well-spent life is an honored retirement from business, in which to enjoy the fruits of former toil. To-day after a useful and beneficial career, Isaac W. Jones is quietly living at his pleasant home in DeYVitt, surrounded by the comfort that earnest labor has brought him. In early life he engaged in carpentering and later followed farming with marked success.

Mr. Jones was born in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio, September 4, 18 18, and is a son of Jonathan Jones, a native, of Brownville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. His parental grandfather, Jonathan Jones, Sr.. was of Welsh descent and an early settler of Philadelphia, where as a carpenter he assisted in putting on the first shingle roof in that city. At that time there were about three hundred houses in the town but all were covered with clapboards. From Philadelphia Mr. Jones removed to Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and later to Jefferson county, Ohio, being one of the first white men to locate there. In the midst of the wilderness he cleared and improved a farm.

The father of our subject grew to manhood in Jefferson county, Ohio, and in that state married Miss Hannah Flaugh. who was born and reared in Uniontown. Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and went to Ohio with a sister. For some years Jonathan Jones, Jr., followed the stone and brick mason's trade, but later settled on a farm near Freeport, Harrison count) Ohio,.and turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. About 1855 he came to Iowa and joined his son in Clinton county, where he spent the remainder of his life. His first wife, who was the mother of our subject, died in this comity, and he subsequently returned to Ohio, where he was again married. He continued to make his home here, however, until his death, but while on a visit, died in Cassville, Ohio.

Isaac \Y. Jones passed his boyhood and youth in Jefferson and Harrison counties, Ohio, where he attended the common schools and also learned the cabinet maker's trade, at which he worked about eighteen years. Later he followed the carpenter's and joiner's trade for some years. He was married near Cassville, Harrison county, December 10, 1840, to Miss Hannah Knight, who was born near Cassville, that county, where her father, John Knight, located in 1806, being one of the first settlers of the county.

Coming west in 1853, Mr. Jones took up his residence in Davenport, Iowa, on the loth of May, that year, where there he worked at both the cabinet maker's and carpenter's trades. The following year he came to DeYVitt. Clinton county, and as a carpenter aided in building the old court house, doing all the work on the belfry. Y\ nile living in Davenport he had purchased two hundred and forty acres of land in what is now Welton township, this county, and one hundred and sixty acres in DeYVitt township, nine miles west of the village, and after following carpentering here for about five years, he located upon his land and turned his attention to its improvement and cultivation. His first home here was a small residence, which in later years was replaced by a more commodious structure. He also erected a good barn and outbuildings, set up a wind pump, and made other improvements upon the place. He planted both

As printed in The Biographical record of Clinton County, Iowa .. (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.