Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Delton:

Ambrose Jones, physician and dentist, Delton; also owner of the steamer Fleetwood, that plies on Mirror Lake for the accommodation of pleasure-seekers; the Doctor was born in Montgomery Co. N.Y., March 20, 1820; he attended medical lectures at the Albany Medical College, and graduated at Rush Medical College, Chicago, in the class of 1847-48; he was located at Waterloo, Jefferson Co., Wis., for a short time; thence to Sun Prairie, where he was engaged in the practice of medicine until the spring of 1850, when he removed to Sauk Co., where he remained till 1862, when he removed to Packwaukee and engaged in the practice of his profession; he enlisted, in August, 1864, in the 5th W.V.I., and was immediately promoted to the position of Assistant Surgeon of that regiment, and served in that capacity till the close of the war; he removed from Packwaukee to Adams Co. in 1869, but returned to Sauk Co. in 1879. The Doctor was married, in 1848, to Miss Sarah Moural, born in the State of New York; he is a Republican politically.

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