Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-08-19

treatment. On Friday the dysentery
subsidized and peritonitis set in. On the
same day several members Of Mr..
Jones's family arrived, and DR.. Put
nam, of Boston, was summoned. On
Sunday the patient sank into stupor,
and it became evident that the end
was near. When death came Mr.. Jones
was surrounded by bis family and sew
eral intimate friends.
The story of George Jones' life is the
story of the founding and building up OF
the New York Times. Although Mr..
Jones had reached the age of 40 when
he joined Henry j. Raymond in estab-
fishing the Times, and had already made
his way to success and a competence in
other business enterprises, his earliest
inclinations had brought him into the
field Of New York journalism, and his
return to it as founder and publisher
Of the Times was but the fulfllment of
his youthful ambitions.
The father and mother were of
sturdy Welsh stock. 1t was in Poult-
ney, VI, that George Jones was born
on the 10th of August, 1911. His
father and mother died when he was Is
years old, and he was left to make his
own way and take care of himself III
the world. There was a country store
in the village OF Poultney, kept by
Amos Bliss. That humble merchant,
himself also journalist, enjoyed the
uncommon distinction of being the
first employer or two men who
in later life were to become con-
spicuous figures in New York jour
nalisn. Mr.. Jones, before he was
ii years old. became the clerk and
errand boy in Mr.. Bliss store. At
about the same time Mr.. Bliss took into
the Northern Spectator. as a printers
apprentice, boy named Horace Gree
ley, who was 70 serve him five years,
be boarded and lodged ,andafter the first
six months was TO receive $40 year.
The two lads became friends and play
mates at once, and their acquaintance
and friendship, renewed not many years
later in New York City, continued with
only such Interruptions as are natural,
and perhaps inevitable, to the rivalries
of journalism, to the time of Mr.. Gree
ley's death.
In 1888 Mr.. Jones came to New York.
Mr.. Greeley had preceded him by two
years. 1t was in the business Office Of
Horace Greeley Tribune that Mr.. Jones
became first connected with journalism.
AS his youthful acquaintance with
Greeley formed in the Vermont village
some seventeen years earlier had
nodded the beginning of his career in
New York, 50 his friendship with Henry
J. Raymond resulted in a business part
nership for the founding and manage
ment of the New York Times. Upon
the death of Mr.. Raymond Mr.. Jones
became the responsible head of the
New York Times, in control of its bust
ness management and editorial policy.
A complete history of Mr.. Jones'
management of the Times during the
three years following Mr.. Raymond's
death would Of necessity include his
tory of the Tweed ring. broken and
overthrown by the Times. Mr.. Jones
had secured the secret accounts of the
Tweed ring and had begun fight which
was only to end with the complete
overthrow of Tweedism, when in some
way Tweed discovered that these ac-
counts were about to be published IN
the Times, and he at once sent an agent
to Mr. Jones with an offer to buy the
Times at any price he might name.
This offer being refused, an offer of
5000, 900 for the suppression of the ac-
counts was made, but it was likewise
refused
Mr.. Jones married, in 1886, Miss Sarah
nj. Gilbert, of Troy. The fiftieth, or
golden, anniversary of this wedding
was quietly observed in the family of
Mr.. Jones in 1886. His surviving chill
dren are Mrs. Emma Ireland, Mrs. Ed
ward j. Lowell, of Boston; Mrs. Henry
L. Dyer, Of this city, and Gilbert E.
Jones.