Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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MARK GORDON JONES, 
 
of Los Angeles, was born in San Francisco, December 28, 1859. His early life was 
chiefly spent in Los Angeles and San Francisco. While quite a lad he attended 
McClure's Military College, in Oakland, but on account of ill health, after a 
few years of hard study; he was obliged to return to Los Angeles, where he 
pluckily resumed his studies, passing through the High-School course of the 
public school. In 1875 he went to the Augustine College, at Benicia, and 
graduated with a good record in the class of 1879. Mr. Jones then undertook the 
management of his mother's, Mrs. Doria Jones,estate. In addition to this, during 
the excitement caused by the unprecedented rise of property in Los Angeles, he 
dealt very successfully in real estate, being one of those fortunate men of whom 
it may well be said, that "nothing succeeds like success." In 1884 Mr. Jones 
married Miss Blanche McDonald (of whose family mention has been made elsewhere, 
in the biography of his father, John Jones, Esq.), and has one son, Dighton 
McDonald, who is at their attractive place on West Pico street. He is already 
being trained in the principles of honesty, uprightness and probity, which has 
been the guiding spirit of the preceding generations.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 766
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler