California Biographies, San Joaquin Valley

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


DAVID STEWART JONES. Numbered among the successful young men of Fresno county is David 
Stewart Jones, who is located at Lane's Bridge, and engaged in an extensive cultivation of grain. 
He was the third in a family of seven children, his birth occurring in Trimble, Dyer county, Tenn., 
July 27, 1871. His father, Ezra Jones, crossed the plains in the '60s and in California married Mary 
Lewis, of Arkansas., who had crossed the plains to this state in the '50s. They returned to 
Tennessee, where Mr. Jones engaged as a farmer and merchant until his death. Until he was 
thirteen years old David Stewart Jones was reared in Tennessee, where he attended the public 
schools in pursuit of an education. In 1884 he came to California and in young manhood took 
charge of his mother's farm on Owens creek, Merced county, where he remained for some 
years. He then bought a farm at Raymond in the mountains, where he engaged in the cattle 
business for four years, after which he located on the San Joaquin river, two miles west of 
Lane's Bridge, in Madera county, where he engaged in the cultivation of grain on one hundred 
and sixty acres of land. In 1904 he bought the old Lane home of eighty acres at Lane's Bridge, 
upon which he located, and now conducts the two farms, as well as renting considerable land, 
making in all sixteen hundred acres devoted to grain and alfalfa. 

In Fresno Mr. Jones was united in marriage with Delia Walker, a native of San Joaquin county, 
and the daughter of J. N. Walker, the first sheriff of Fresno county,' and one of the prominent 
men of this section. (For more complete details concerning Mr. Walker refer to his biography, 
which appears elsewhere in this volume.) To Mr. and Mrs. Jones were born the following 
children : Zella, Orville and Zolo. Mr. Jones is independent in politics but takes a keen interest in 
the welfare of the community. At various times he has served as school trustee and has given 
his best efforts to advance educational interests.