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I W Jones Eng'r was an American
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firm that operated from offices on Main Street in Milton, New Hampshire, from 1899 to 1930. The firm built water-powered factories and
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plants. Ira W. Jones was the principal of the firm.


Ira W. Jones

Ira W. Jones was born in Milton on June 10, 1854. His father was George H. Jones (1826 – after 1910), and his mother was Lucy Jane Varney (1827–1897). Ira had an older sister Addie V. (1848 - ?), an older brother Charles A. (1852 - ?), and a younger sister Nettie J. (1863 - ?). In the 1870 US census, Ira and his brother Charles are shown as working on their father's farm in Milton. However, in the 1880 census, while Charles is still shown as working on the farm, Ira's occupation at 25 years of age is shown as "sets water wheels". In the next available census from 1900, Ira was living in
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, across the
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from Milton. He had married Lucia C. Wentworth in 1887 and had two children, Nettie age 13 and Mary age 8, at the time of the 1900 census. Ira's occupation was listed as
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in 1900. Jones's formal education began in the public schools in South Milton, New Hampshire.''History of Strafford County New Hampshire and Representative Citizens''; John Scales, Editor ''Dover Daily Democrat''; Richmond - Arnold Publishing Co.; F. J. Richmond Pres. & C. R. Arnold Sec. and Treas.; Chicago, IL; 1914; pp. 877–878. He graduated from Milton High School and went to
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,
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, where he studied drafting at Starr King Drawing School. After completing at Starr King, Jones spent three additional years in Boston making patterns and models. He then spent four years learning the
millwright A millwright is a craftsman or skilled tradesman who installs, dismantles, maintains, repairs, reassembles, and moves machinery in factories, power plants, and construction sites. The term ''millwright'' (also known as ''industrial mechanic'') ...
trade before spending a year and a half with a
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, Massachusetts, machinery manufacturer as a
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and
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. For the next 13½ years, from about 1887 to 1900, Jones worked selling equipment from machinery manufacturers in
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, and Worcester. Around 1900, Jones founded an engineering and consulting firm that employed 10 to 15 engineers. The offices of I.W. Jones Engineers were on Main Street in Milton. The firm specialized in
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, water wheels and turbines, mill buildings and hydroelectric plants and undertook contracts all over
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, the southern states and Canada.


I W Jones Eng'r. projects


See also

* Economy of New Hampshire


References

{{reflist Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States Defunct engineering companies of the United States Defunct companies based in New Hampshire Companies based in Strafford County, New Hampshire Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1899 Design companies disestablished in 1930 1899 establishments in New Hampshire 1930 disestablishments in New Hampshire Privately held companies based in New Hampshire Defunct privately held companies of the United States American companies established in 1899 American companies disestablished in 1930