BIOGRAPHY OF EDWIN FRANK JONES of Manchester NH ------------------------------------ Information located at http://www.nh.searchroots.com/Manchester On a web site about GENEALOGY AND HISTORY OF MANCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE TRANSCRIBED BY JANICE BROWN Please see the web site for my email contact. ---------------------------------- The original source of this information is in the public domain, however use of this text file, other than for personal use, is restricted without written permission from the transcriber (who has edited, compiled and added new copyrighted text to same). ======================================================== SOURCE: One Thousand New Hampshire Notables: Brief Biographical Sketches of New Hampshire Men and Women, by Frances Matilda Abbott, 1919, Rumford Printing Company. --------------- page 193 FRANK EDWIN JONES Lawyer; b. Manchester NH, April 19, 1859; son of Edwin R. and Mary A. (Farnham) Jones; educated Manchester schools, Dartmouth College, A.B., 1880; studied law with the late Judge David Cross of Manchester; admitted to the bar August 23, 1883, and commenced practice as a partner of the late William J. Copeland; after Mr. Copeland's death in 1886, continued alone for sixteen years, then becoming a member of the firm of Burnham, Brown, Jones & Warren, which with some changes in membership is now the firm of Jones, Warren, Wilson & Manning, with an extensive general practice, Mr. Jones devoting himself mainly, however, to the interests of various large corporations; Unitarian; Republican; assistant clerk N.H. House of Representatives 1881; clerk 1883, 1885; city solicitor of Manchester twelve years form 1887; treasurer Hillsborough County 1887-95; delegate in N.H. constitutional convention on future mode of amending the constitution; delegate again in the convention of 1912, and president of the convention; a frequent speaker on the stump in the interests of his party, and orator of the day at many civic celebrations and historical anniversaries; president of the Republican state convention in 1900; delegate-at-large from New Hampshire in the Republican national convention at Chicago, in 1908; trustee of Manchester city library since 1906; many years trustee of Pine Grove Cemetery; member N.H. Bar Association (president, 1906-8), American Bar Ass'n; Mason, member, Washington Lodge (Master in 1891), Mt. Horeb Chapter, Adoniram Council and Trinity Commandery of Manchester; N.H. Consistory (32d degree and Shriner; district deputy grand master, Grand Lodge of N.H. in 1896, and grand master in 1910; I.O.O.F.; member Manchester Committee of Public Safety, and chariman Speakers' Bureau, N.H. Committee of PUblic Safety; member Phi Beta Kappa, Derryfield and Intervale County clubs, Manchester Boston Art Club, Boston; m. Dec 21, 1887 Nora F. Kennard of Manchester; one dau, Rebecca, b. July 17, 1889, d. Oct 26, 1902. Residence, Manchester NH. (end)