"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN JONES, carriage-trimmer and harness-maker at Mooresville,
Ind., is a native of Warren County, Ohio; is the youngest of ten children,
four sons and six daughters, of Nathan and Margaret (Hawkins) Jones, natives
of New Jersey and Ohio, and of Welsh and English extraction respectively,
and was born May 9, 1846. He was reared upon a farm, and at the public
schools of Ohio acquired a good English educational September 2, 1864, he
enrolled at Waynesville, Ohio, in Company B., One Hundred and Eightieth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, and served to July 25, 1865, when he was honorably
discharged with the rank of Duty Sergeant on account of cessation of war.
While in the service, he participated in the battle of Kingston, N.C., and a
number of skirmishes. Soon after enlistment, he was detached and put into
garrison duty. Mr. Jones came to Mooresville in November, 1870, and took
service with Dorland & Gregory, dealers in hardware and agricultural
implements. In January, 1873, he began the trade of harness-maker and
carriage-trimmer, and, in 1876, set up in business on his own account.
April 26, 1876, he was married at New Albany, Ind., to Emma Thompson, a
native of Indiana, and daughter of Rev. I. N. Thompson, and by this marriage
he has had born to him one child--Betram T. After returning from the army,
he was engaged in the dry goods business at Lebanon, Ohio, during the year
1867 and a part of 1868, and, in 1869-70, he was at Oskaloosa, Iowa, in the
grocery business. Aside from a small inheritance from the estate of his
father, he has worked for what the has, and owns a nice residence property
and the splendid brick building in which he carries on his business. In
politics, he is a wide-awake Republican, a temperance man and an advocate of
prohibition. From 1879 to 1882, he carried on the manufacture of carriages
and buggies in addition to his other business, and altogether his
industrious efforts have proved satisfactorily remunerative. He is a highly
respected citizen and a reliable business man. In 1876, he was Town Clerk
of Mooresville, and as such wrote and compiled the town ordinances. The
father of our subject died in August, 1865, at the age of sixty-eight years.
His mother yet lives at the age of about seventy-eight years, and makes her
home with him.
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