Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and family history of New York . ilroad. Here hewas actively engaged as a civil engineer when the financial dif-ficulties of 1857 caused a suspension of railroad enterprise. Hereturned to Poughkeepsie where his mother had a country seat,commenced the study of law and was admitted to the bar in entered the office of Mr. John T. Crosby whose niece he after-wards married. He, with Mr. P. W. Ostrander, formed a part-nership with Mr. John P. Crosby in 1867, under the firm nameof Crosby, Ostrander & Jones. During the continuance of thispartner
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and family history of New York . ilroad. Here hewas actively engaged as a civil engineer when the financial dif-ficulties of 1857 caused a suspension of railroad enterprise. Hereturned to Poughkeepsie where his mother had a country seat,commenced the study of law and was admitted to the bar in entered the office of Mr. John T. Crosby whose niece he after-wards married. He, with Mr. P. W. Ostrander, formed a part-nership with Mr. John P. Crosby in 1867, under the firm nameof Crosby, Ostrander & Jones. During the continuance of thispartnership Mr. Jones was interested in many important lawsuits, and conducted the large real estate business of the was one of the original incorporators of the elevated rail-road on Greenwich street, patented by Mr. Charles T. Harvey,which was the forerunner of the elevated railway system. went with his family to Portland, Oregon, in 1871, andthere practiced his profession. The following year he obtainedan appointment on the United States Coast Survey under his. TbeRsmbf»ndtEnaCaPh,l ->^e ^<^/^^ Cd^n^i^^y^^^^c^ GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY 193 friend General Micliler, and was engaged in the survey of theSan Juan archipelago and the channel of the Columbia river, atAstoria. In the fall of 1873 he went to San Francisco andformed a business relation with Hon. Delos Lake, a leadinglawyer, which continued several years. He then entered intopartnership with Hon. Nathaniel Bennett, formerly one of thejudges of the Sui3reme court, and was for a time attorney for thePacifie Mail Steamship Company, and in many important casesgained a well merited reputation as an able lawyer. He returnedto New York in 1882 and entered the office of Coudert Brothers,where he remained two years and then recommenced practiceby himself, principally confined to real estate and counsel busi-ness and to corporation matters. Mr. Jones married, December 18, 1860, Josepha, seconddaughter of t
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