GEORGE W. JONES

Mount Olivet Cemetery
Dubuque County, Iowa
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George W. Jones
Born Apr. 12, 1804
Died July 22, 1896

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Posted on Jan-8-2014 by CHERYL MOONEN
GEN. GEORGE W. JONES, Dubuque. Many years before the Black Hawk war of 1832, the successful lead miners and Indian traders looked with anxiety to the times when they might take possession of the lead mines which had been opened and worked by Julien Dubuque over forty years before. Among such men was George Wallace Jones; he was born at Vincennes, Ind., on the 12th of April, 1804, and was a con't

Posted on Jan-8-2014 by CHERYL MOONEN
son of Hon. John Rice Jones, a native of Merionetshire, Wales; Mr. Jones was educated at the Transylvanina University, in Lexington, Ky., and, on graduating, chose the legal profession, which he studied with a relative, Hon. John Scott, at St. Genevieve, Mo.; he was soon appointed Clerk of Judge Peck's court, in which he discharged his duties with commendation; at this time, failing health con't

Posted on Jan-8-2014 by CHERYL MOONEN
requirred a more active life, and, being of very enterprosing spirit, he determined to seek his fortune in the Upper Mississippi lead region; he according removed to the new Territory of Michigan, and made a home at Sinsinawa Mound, only six miles from Dubuque; this was in the early part of 1827. At the close of the Black Hawk war, he was elected Judge of the Court of the Western District con't,

Posted on Jan-8-2014 by CHERYL MOONEN
of Michigan, now the State of Wisconsin; it may be said to his credit, in the adnimistration of justice, that no appeal was taken from any of is decisions. Upon the organization of Wisconsin Territory, then including Iowa, Minnesota and even the whole region west to the Pacific, in 1836, he was triumphantly elected over two formidable competitors as a delegate to Congress; he then commenced con't

Posted on Jan-8-2014 by CHERYL MOONEN
that brilliant political career of civil service and national legislation which continued for more than thirty years, and, when a Government land office was required for Wisconsin and Iowa, he was appointed Surveyor General. This measure had been earnestly advocated by Delegate Jones while in Congress, and it was mainly through his personal influence that the office was located at Dubuque. con't.

Posted on Jan-8-2014 by CHERYL MOONEN
at Dubuque. He accordingly removed to the city and Territory of his adoption, and has remained one of its most distinguished citizens ever since. In the next two years, political partisanship became so strong under a change of Presidential administration, that he was removed from the office, but was re-appointed under the new political policy of President Polk in 1845. He then discharged con't.

Posted on Jan-8-2014 by CHERYL MOONEN
the duties of Surveyor General until 1848, when he was selected General Assembly as one of the two United States Senators; upon the expiration of his first term as Senator, he was re-elected for another term of six years, terminating in 1859. Under the new administration of President Buchanan, Gen. Jones was appointed Minister to New Canada. He made this official residence in Bogota con't.

Posted on Jan-8-2014 by CHERYL MOONEN
for three years, and returned during the first year of the rebellion. Under some misapprehension of facts, involving also _________malice, incident to that lamentable period of our history, he was arrested and confined several months at Fort La Fayette, and discharged without specific charges having been made against him; on reaching Dubuque, he was given the honor of a _______reception. con't.

Posted on Jan-8-2014 by CHERYL MOONEN
For the last fifteen years, Gen. Jones has lived a partially retired life. His present family consists of his wife, whose maiden name was Miss Josephine Gregoire, whom he married at St. Genevieve, Mo., in 1829; she was a member of a highly respected French family, a lady of high attainments and distinguished for a ____excellence of womanly and Christian virtues. Of his children there are con't.

Posted on Jan-8-2014 by CHERYL MOONEN
surviving three sons and two daughters. In every position which in his eventful life he has been called to fill, Gen. Jones has been successful in the highest degree. Few men have more devoted friends; none excel him in unselfish devotion and unswerving ability to the worthy recipients of his confidence and friendship. In public enterprises and benevolent societies, and in all the social con't.

Posted on Jan-8-2014 by CHERYL MOONEN
and business relations of life, few men of Dubuque or Iowa will leave a brighter record of public service or private character than Gen. George W. Jones. “The History of Dubuque County" http://members.tripod.com/~Doreen_3/DBBIOAB.htm

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