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GEORGE W. JONES, who is the present, and has been for the past three years, street commissioner and city surveyor of Jamestown, is a son of Luther C. and Angeline (Putnam) Jones, and was born in Ellery, Chautauqua county, New York, February 26, 1846. Luther C. Jones was a native of Massachusetts, where he was born February 26, 1806, and when about twenty years of age came to Ellery and afterwards removed to Harmony, this county, where he lived until the beginning of the late war, when he went to Randolph, Cattaraugus county and remained until the spring of 1865, when he came to East Jamestown. Mr. Jones’ life-long profession was surveying which he taught to his son George W., who still follows it. He was a republican politically and served a number of years as justice of the peace in the town of Ellery. He married Angeline Putnam and had several children: one who died in infancy; Mehitable, married Abram Wing and died July 11, 1865; Miles, entered the Union army in Co. G, 72d regiment. New York Infantry, in 1861 and died of quinsy in 1862, having been promoted to corporal; Albert C., entered the service August 20, 1862, in Co. H, 112th regiment, and served to the close of the war, entering as a private and receiving promotion advancing him to second lieutenant. He was with the Army of the James and received a severe wound in the battle of Cold Harbor, again, at the Chapin’s farm fight, he was shot in the side and at Fort Fisher, received a severe wound in the hand. He now resides in Jamestown.

George W. Jones was educated in the common schools and from his father learned the profession of land surveying which has been his occupation through life, excepting about three years when he was in the Union army. He entered Co. H, 112th regiment. New York Infantry, August 20, 1862, and remained in the service until the final mustering out, in 1865. His division participated at Chapin’s Farm, Cold Harbor, Fort Fisher and in many minor engagements and skirmishes, although he was but nineteen years of age at the close of the war.

He married Matilda Jones, a daughter of Abraham Jones and a niece of Sidney Jones, who resides in Jamestown, on February 26, 1868. They have been blest with four children: Wilber M., Leonard F., Grace L. and Clyde G.

Politically Mr. Jones is a member of the Republican party and by it was nominated to the office of street commissioner and city assessor of Jamestown, and both himself and brother, Albert C. Jones, are members of James M. Brown Post, Grand Army of the Republic.