JOHN J. JONES. MINNEAPOLIS, HENNEPIN CO, MINNESOTA.
Son of John and Elizabeth Jones. Born September 10th, 1840, at Tynllwyn, Merionethshire, North Wales. Came with his parents to Welsh Prairie, Wisconsin 1848. In 1860 he attended school at Portage, where later he entered the dry goods store of Mr. Forbes, as a clerk. In 1865 he went to Berlin, Wisconsin, where he was engaged in the dry goods business with Mr. Forbes for seven years. From there he went to Marquette, Michigan, and was with Watson and Palmer for twelve years.In 1884 he came to Minneapolis and opened a business on Franklin and Twelvth Avenue South, with R. H. Jones, under the name of J.J.Jones and Co., where a large trade was secured from the start. In order to have a building adapted to the stock carried, the Jones block was built in 1886 on Franklin and Fourteenth Avenue South, where the store still continues.
In 1891, Mr. J. J. Jones became sole owner and carries a well selected stock of foreign and domestic goods and is doing good business.
Mr. Jones was brought up in the Calvanistic Methodist Church, in which his father, John Jones, Tynllwyn, was a faithful deacon for many years at Welsh Prairie, Wisconsin, and Bristol Grove, Minnesota, but having spent years away from any Welsh Church he became an active worker in the Presbyterian Church, and is now a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Minneapolis.