California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

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


STEPHEN A. JONES.  Was born in Rush County, Indiana, December 3, 1836, and is the son of Isaac B. 
and Lucy Stewart Jones. In 1841 his parents moved to Missouri, where he resided till 1857, when he 
came across the plains to California, arriving in September of that year. He immediately came to Napa 
County and began farming, which he has at intervals followed, and in connection with which he is now 
engaged in sheep raising, his ranch being located in Capelle Valley. Mr. Jones is unmarried.