Alameda County Biographies

EDMOND JONES

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	(deceased).  This gentleman, the brother of the above-named Andrew Jones, was a Quaker 
by birth, and born at Janetta, Pennsylvania, in the year 1820.  After carrying on a dairy 
business near Philadelphia, in 1853 he emigrated to California, and on arrival began a draying 
business, but soon after engaged in the pickle trade with ------ Baker, in San Francisco.  In 
1856 he came to Alameda County, embarked in farming operations near San Lorenzo, and there 
resided until 1864, when he removed to the ranch where his brother now resides.  He died 
December 31, 1878.

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