Robinson G. Jones

As printed in 1910

ROBINSON G. JONES.

The educational interests of Henry county find one of their most prominent representatives in Professor Robinson G. Jones, superintendent of the city schools, He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, December 14, 1871, a son of Rev. John G. and Rovilla (Robinson) Jones, the former a minister of the Methodist church. Professor Jones pursued his education in the schools of Columbus, Ohio, from which he was graduated, and in the Ohio Central Normal School and the Ohio Northern University, the last named conferring upon him the degree of Master of Arts in 1894. He also studied law in the Ohio University and pursued a special history course in the University of Chicago and a special course in Columbia University in New York city in 1907. His entire life has been devoted to educational work and to the further promotion of his own education as he has found opportunity to resume his studies. For one year he was principal and for four years superintendent of the public schools at Gibson City, Illinois, was superintendent of the schools at Lexington, Illinois for two years and spent five years as superintendent at Harvard, Illinois. He then came to Kewanee as superintendent of schools of this city, where he has done excellent and effective work, placing the public-school system of Kewanee on a par with that of other schools of the state. He holds to high standards and works toward high ideals in his chosen profession, eagerly embracing every opportunity that will enhance the effectiveness of his labor in accomplishing results, in equipping the youth for the practical and responsible duties of life. He is a member of the National Educational Association and of the Department of Superintendents and belongs also to the State Teachers Association and to the Superintendents Round Table of Chicago. He is a member of the western division of the Northern Illinois Teachers Association and is vice president of the Superintendents and Principals Association of Northern Illinois. He is now acting as secretary of the superintendents division of the State Teachers Association, He has a wide acquaintance among leading educators of Illinois and has made continuous progress in his profession, being now accorded a position of distinction as a representative of public instruction in this state.

On the 27th of July, 1899, Mr. Jones married Miss Minnie L. Gish, of Rittman, Ohio, a daughter of John J. Gish, a tobacco broker, who is a native of Connecticut and is now connected with the tobacco industry of northern Ohio. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Jones has been born a son, Robert Stanley. In his fraternal relations the father is a Mason, devoted to the interests of the order, and in religious belief is a Presbyterian.

As printed in History of Henry County, Illinois (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.