David B. Jones (1848 – August 23, 1923) was president and chairman of the board of directors of the Mineral Point Zinc Company and considered a founder of the Zinc industry in America. When ill, he chartered a special train whose speed rivaled the time of the ''Scott Special''.
Biography
"He founded the Mineral Point
incCompany in Wisconsin, which owns the
whole town in Wisconsin, about thirty years ago and merged it with the
New Jersey Zinc Company
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in a nationwide organization in 1897."
David Benton Jones had a winter home near
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, at "Pepper Hill" in
Montecito, California.
He had a townhouse at 1435 Astor Street in Chicago, Illinois, and a summer house at
Lake Forest, Illinois. When he was ill, he chartered a
train
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between Los Angeles, Chicago, and Lake Forest which was a few minutes faster than the
Scott Special. David B. Jones also had a house in Florida.
"Mr. Jones was born in Pembrokeshire, North Wales, in 1848. He came to this country as a boy and received his education here, graduating from Princeton University in 1874. He was a close friend of ex-President Wilson."
David B. Jones had three daughters: Gwethalyn Jones, Catherine (Mrs.
Edward H. Bennett) Jones, and Winifred Jones and two sons: Owen B. and Herbert Jones.
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1848 births
1923 deaths
19th-century American businesspeople