Born Aberstwyth, South Wales, September 23, 1885. Son of Joseph and Margaret (Davies) Jones. Educated British School and National School. Graduate Bala Theological College, North Wales, 1882. Post graduate work in Liverpool University, one year. D. D. Ripon, Wisconsin, 1911.

Married Elizabeth Wigley of Judson, Minnesota, October 9, 1885. Wife died March 1890. Children: Robert Jones, Elizabeth Jones (Mrs. Elmer Roberts of Chicago). Married second time to Alice Williams of Chicago, January 1895. Began preaching in Wales, 1877, at Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church.

Came to the United States in 1883. Pastor at Mankato, Minnesota, 1884 to 1888. Pastor at Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1889 to 1894. Came to Chicago February, 1894 to Hebron Church. This church was erected at 2900 West Monroe Street, Chicago, at a cost of $36,000.

Moderator General of Calvinistic Assembly 1913-1916; collected $105,600 for missions in sixteen months, 1914-1916. Republican. Member of Cambrian Benevolent Society. Mason. Kymry Society of Chicago.

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