Alameda County Biographies

ANDREW JONES

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Seneca 
County, New York, October 12, 1837, where he resided, save one year, until he came to 
California in the month of October, 1869, embarked in farming with his brother, and now owns 
thirty-five acres of land and leases one hundred and eighty acres more; employs about seventy-
five men during picking season.  He is engaged in the cultivation and manufacture of pickles.  
Married, April 27, 1858, Miss Jane C. Greene, and has three surviving children, viz.:  Nellie 
(now Mrs. M. J. Fontana), Edna, and Mary.

History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 921