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Below is a family biography included in the Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania published in 1904 by T. S. Benham & Company and The Lewis Publishing Company; Elwood Roberts, Editor. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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JONATHAN R. JONES, son of Jonathan and Amanda (Robeson) Jones, one of the best known residents of Lower Merion, was born in that township, November 17, 1851. Jonathan Jones, his father, was born December 7, 1817, and died August 7, 1900. His mother, Amanda Robeson, was born December 25, 1822, and died May 10, 1885. The children of Jonathan and Amanda Jones were: Silas (deceased), married Mary Jeffries, they having no children; Jonathan R., subject of this sketch.
Jonathan R. Jones married M. Adele Wright. They have but one child, a son. He received his early education at Lower Merion Academy, attending later the Friends’ Central School at Fifteenth and Race streets, Philadelphia. He also took a full course in penmanship, etc., at Bryant & Stratton’s Business College, a well known Philadelphia institution in its day. Afterwards Jonathan R. Jones became an instructor in Crittenden’s Commercial College, another well known Philadelphia institution, where he taught penmanship. He remained in that position for three years, at the end of which time he entered the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, in which he took a three years’ course and graduated with honor. He then built a studio on his father’s homestead in Lower Merion, where he has since practiced his profession and looked after the interests of the farm.
Jonathan Jones, father, was educated at Lower Merion Academy, and was in his day a very successful farmer.
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