History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . s married to Miss Helen C. Nich-ols, of Wells, Minn., a woman of culture andrefinement. They have had five children—Frances Helen, Harry Smith, Joseph Nich-ols, Luella, and Lawrence Baker doctor is an attendant and supporter ofthe Park Avenue Congregational church,with which his family is identified. In poli-tics, although too busy to take an active part,he is a Republican, having cast his first votefor President
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . s married to Miss Helen C. Nich-ols, of Wells, Minn., a woman of culture andrefinement. They have had five children—Frances Helen, Harry Smith, Joseph Nich-ols, Luella, and Lawrence Baker doctor is an attendant and supporter ofthe Park Avenue Congregational church,with which his family is identified. In poli-tics, although too busy to take an active part,he is a Republican, having cast his first votefor President Grant. JONES, William Alexander, specialist innervous and mental diseases. Dr. Jones isa native of Minnesota, and was born at , May 24, 1859. His ancestors were^^elsh on his fathers side, and Scotch on hismothers. Both of his grandfathers wereAmerican jjatriots, and fought in the Warof the Revolution. Dr. Jones father wasborn in Vermont in 1832, and when fouryears of age went with his parents to NewYork City, where he grew to manhood. Hecame to Minnesota in 54, and located at , where he kept a drug store, returning HISTORY OF THE GREAT WILLIAM A. JOXES. to New York in 58, in which city he wasmarried to M. A. Virginia Christian, whowas born and reared in that citj. The youngcouple returned at once to their westernliome, to witness and share in the most stir-ring scenes of frontier life. While watchinga scalp-dance of the Sioux, Mrs. Jones wasforced to join in the circle; and a few yearslater they saw the terrible Indian outbreak,and they sheltered many refugees in theirhome. Dr. Jones was then a mere baby. Hiseducation was gained in the common schoolsof St. Peter, and at the end of his course inthe high school, he spent six years as a clerkin his fathers drug store, where he gaineda thorough and practical knowledge of graduating from the medical depart-ment of the University of the City of NewYork, in the class of 81, he became assist-an
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