Biography

03/27/1851 - 01/03/1906

JONES, William E., a Representative from Schuylkill County; born, March 27, 1851 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; captain, Company E, 8th Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard; store clerk; miner; proprietor, book and stationery store; elected, burgess, Mahanoy City (1883-1884); appointed, deputy coroner, Schuylkill County (1885-1887); treasurer, Serial Building and Loan Association; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1888; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1890); notary public, Mahanoy City; died, January 3, 1906 in Mahanoy City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; interred, Odd Fellows Cemetery, Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.