Butte County Biographies

GEORGE F. JONES

Submitted by Betty Wilson

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            GEORGE F. JONES was born in Hillsboro, New Hampshire, April 4, 1828. 
 At the age of eighteen he left the parental home and went to Boston to earn a 
name and a future for himself.  In the year 1849, he came to the Pacific coast, 
and hurried to the mines of Georgetown, El Dorado county, where he engaged in 
trading and mining.  After two years he left for Sacramento, where he remained 
but a few months.  From thence he went to Shasta county, where, in company with 
a Mr. Cady, he built and kept the Ca�on house.  On the first of June, 1853, he 
married Miss Sidney Ann McIntosh, the wife who survives him.  In 1854, he 
removed to the Lone Tree ranch, in Colusa county, where he kept a public house 
and raised stock.  In 1859, he was elected sheriff of Colusa county, and was 
re-elected in 1861 by the largest majority ever given a public officer in that 
county.  In 1863, he purchased the mercantile establishment of James N. Suydam, 
in Colusa, where he did a flourishing business.  In 1866, in company with Mr. 
Suydam, he came to Chico and bought the mercantile business until he associated 
with him Messrs. Harris and Sanderson.  In 1871, Mr. Jones, in partnership with 
E.J. Reilly, went into the hardware business, remaining a partner in this branch 
of trade until his death, which occurred on the seventh of November, 1873.  As a 
business man he was public-spirited, scrupulously honorable and honest in his 
dealings with his fellow-men, unfailing in his judgment of financial 
transactions and ventures, and liberal with his means when he heard the cry of 
distress.  In all the walks of life he was a good man, a kind friend and a 
loving companion.  Where he was known his name will be remembered for many 
years.
 
History of Butte County, California: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present 
Time - Vol. II -  Harry L. Wells & W. L. Chambers - 547 Clay Street, San 
Francisco, Cal., 1882.