Amador County Biographies

W. C. JONES 

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Was born in Lewis county, Missouri, April 1, 1834, where he spent his boyhood until he was eighteen 
years of ago. Being of an energetic temperament, he broke away from the comforts of home and made 
his way to the land of gold, by way of the plains, arriving in Diamond Springs, El Dorado county, 
September 30, 1852, where he remained engaged in mining until 1857, when he removed to Amador 
county. He was married October 11, 1857, to Mrs. Elizabeth Kelley, by whom he has had six children, 
four of whom are now living. He takes naturally to keeping hotel, having been mostly engaged in that
 business since his residence in the county. All the travelers on the road in 1859-60 will remember the 
comforts of the Revere House under his management. He recently purchased a tract of one hundred and 
sixty acres among the romantic hills, two and one-half miles east of lone, which he is fitting up as a 
pleasant stopping place, and as a resort for persons seeking rest and amusement. The character of his 
improvements will be best learned from the fine engraving of them which accompanies this volume. 

History of Amador, California With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches 
of its Prominent Men and PioneersOakland, California, Thompson and West, 
1881.