Tuolumne County Biographies

J. M. JONES

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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A celebrated lawyer of New Orleans, came here early, and was a delegate to the 
Monterey Convention with Ben Moore and others, in 1849.  Died in San Jose in 
1851, while Judge of the United States District Court.
�A History of Tuolumne County, California� B.F. Alley, 1882.  Pg. 401.
Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton
JONES, JOHN P.
Concerning Nevada�s millionaire Senator and the friend of President Arthur, 
Tuolumne knows a great deal.  Liv�ing here in the "fifties," he figured in the 
celebrated mock trial of Barnes vs. Stuart, concerning ownership of a ranch.  
Otis Greenwood was Judge.  The verdict of the jury, fill�ing a dozen sheets of 
foolscap, gave Stuart three feet of the surface, and to Barnes the �remainder, 
to the center of the earth.�

�A History of Tuolumne County, California� B.F. Alley, 1882.  Pg. 396.