- CHARLES E. JONES was born Feb. 18, 1844, at Litchfield, Herkimer
Co., N.Y., and came
- to Wisconsin in the fall of 1850, locating at Magnolia, fourteen
miles west of Janesville; from Litchfield he went to Magnolia,
and then to Red Wing, Minn., where he went to school, and where
he was engaged part of one summer on a brick-yard; he then went
to Janesville and was employed by H. E. PATTERSON; from there
he engaged with the Milwaukee & Prairie du Chien Railroad,
first as fireman and then as engineer, for fourteen months; then
went to Davenport, Iowa, and learned the machine business; he
was then engaged with the Northern Line Packet Steamship Company,
and was engineer of the steamer Muscatine for one year; in 1864,
was engineer of the steamer Edward Walsh, a transport for the
United States troops, and was in the employ of the Government
until the spring of 1865; he was also engineer of the gunboat
Elta; he then went to Chicago and engaged as engineer with the
Atlantic & Mississippi Steamship Company, and was engineer
of the steamers J. C. Swan and Mollie Able; in March, 1867, he
went to Janesville, and in April 1867, came to Beloit and entered
the employ of the MERRILL & HOUSTON Iron Company, first as
a journeyman, then as foreman, and afterward in traveling and
putting up their work. Mr. JONES was engineer of steam fire engine
No. 2, of Janesville, for eight months. He married, March 1,
1868, Delia E. SMITH, of Port Washington, Wis.; has three children
living - Cora, Burt and Bessie. Mrs. JONES is a member of the
Second Congregational Church at Beloit.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 753-754.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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