Joseph Jonas (other)
Joseph Jonas (1845–1921) was the German-born Lord Mayor of Sheffield. Joseph Jonas may also refer to: *Joseph Jonas (Cincinnati) (1792–1869), Cincinnati watchmaker & silversmith *Joe Jonas Joseph Adam Jonas (born August 15, 1989) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He rose to fame as a member of the pop rock band the Jonas Brothers, alongside his brothers Kevin Jonas, Kevin and Nick Jonas, Nick. The group released their ...

Joseph Jonas
Joseph Jonas (1845 – 22 August 1921) was the Germany, German-born Lord Mayor of Sheffield, England in 1904–05. Background Jonas was born in Bingen am Rhein, in the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1845, and became a naturalized British citizen in 1876. (transcribed by Eric Youle). The same year he married Lucy Ann Earle; they had five sons and one daughter. He had fled his home country in 1867 to avoid military service. He went to Sheffield in about 1870 to start a steel business. About two years later, Robert Colver of Western Bank joined him and the business became Jonas, Meyer and Colver. He prospered and with partners ran the Continental Steel Works, which by 1890 was one of the most successful in the area, particularly with its production of high speed steel. He became a town councillor in 1890 and Lord Mayor in 1904. In 1905 he received a Knight bachelor, knighthood. He was a Justice of the Peace and a benefactor of the University of Sheffield, particularly the Applied Sciences ...
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Joseph Jonas (Cincinnati)
The history of the Jews in Cincinnati occupies a prominent place in the development of Jewish secular and religious life in the United States. Cincinnati is not only the oldest Jewish community west of the Allegheny Mountains but has also been an institutional center of American Reform Judaism for more than a century. ''The Israelite'', the oldest American Jewish newspaper still (2019) being published, began publication in Cincinnati in 1854. 19th century Arrival of British Jews The first known Jew to settle in Cincinnati was Joseph Jonas, an English emigrant who arrived in the city via Philadelphia in 1817. Jonas, a young man, decided to leave his home in Exeter, England, with the avowed intention of settling in Cincinnati. Friends in Philadelphia originally endeavored to dissuade him from going to a place so isolated from all association with his coreligionists. However, Jonas reassured them that he would succeed. For the first two years, he was the only Jew in the Midwestern ...
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