St. Paul daily globe., 1891-08-13

has contributed prominent and success
full men to so many of the older COM
munities of this country. Coming to
America some years before the birth of
their son George, they had settled in
the village of Poultney, Vt. where the
father engaged in the business of a
woolen manufacturer. 1t was in Poult-
ney that George Jones was born on the
10th of August, 1911. He would have
reached the ageof eighty on Sunday, the
10th of this month. The story of his
youth is the familiar story of slender
means and hard toll. His father and
mother died when he was thirteen
years old, and was left to make his own
way and take care of himself in the
world. There was a country store in
the village of Poultney, kept by
Amos Bliss. That humble merchant,
himself also a journalist, enjoyed
the uncommon distinction of being
the first employer of two men who
in later life were to become conspicuous
figures in New York journalism. Mr..
Jones, before he was fourteen years
old. became the clerk and errand boy
in Mr.. Bliss store. At about the same
time Mr.. Bliss took into the composing
room of his newspaper, the Northern
Spectator, as a printers apprentice,
boy named Horace Greeley, who was to
serve him five years. be boarded and
lodged, and after the first six months
was to receive $40 year. The two lads
became friends and playmates at once,
and their acquaintance and friendship,
renewed not many years later in New
York city, continued with only such in
terruptiOns as are natural and perhaps
inevitable to the rivalry of journalism,
to the time of Mr.. GreeIeys death.
1t was in 1888 that Mr.. Jones came to
New York. Mr.. Greeley had preceded
him by two years. 1t was in the business
Office of Horace Greeley's Tribune that
Mr.. Jones became first connected with
journalism. Just as his Youthful ac-
qualntance with Greeley, formed in the
Vermont village some seventeen years
earlier, had moulded the beginning of his
career in New York, so his friendship
with Henry j. Raymond, beginning
while the one was employed in the bus
inesS Office and the other in the editorial
room of the Tribune, was destined
speedily to ripen into intimacy. conf
dence and mutual respect. and later to
bring them into business partnership
in the founding and management of the
New York Times. Upon the death of
Mr.. Raymond, George Jones became
the responsible head of the New York
Times, in control of its business man
agement 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 began fight which
was only to end with the complete over
throw of TWeediSm. When, in some
way, Tweed discovered that these ac-
counts were about to be published in
the Times, he at once sent an agent to
Mr.. Jones with an offer to buy the
Times at any price lie might name.
This offer being refused, an offer of
S5,000,000 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 fftieth. 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.
NEW YORK, Aug. 12-The body of
the late George Jones was brought
home, accompanied by his family. at II
O'Clock tonight and was taken to his
residence, No. 80 West Thirty-seventh
street. The funeral services will be
held Friday morning. The pall-bear-
ers have not yet been selected.