Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26
MISS NELLIE JONES.

The following article was taken from
the Sioux City Daily journal, and will
be of interest to old settlers of this city
and county Miss Nellie Jones is a
daughter of Benjamin Jones, who came
to Wausau in 1852 and remained until
about 1865. Miss Jones was born in
Wausau and left when little girl, but
she has visited here several times and
is well known to many of our citizens.
The article is as follows:
Miss Jones represents one of the
pioneer families of the state, her father,
Benjamin Jones, having originally set
tied in Iowa In 1S41. After residing in
state several years he removed to Wau-
sau, Wis, where his early married life
was spent and where the subject of this
sketch was born. In 1872 he removed
with his family to Sheldon, where he
has since resided aud where the minis
trations of himself and his estimable
wife are still gratefully remembered by
those who experienced with them the
priyations and hardships incident to
pioneer life.
After completing a four years col
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distinguished honors as salutator
ian of her class, Miss Jones
accepted a position in the public
schools of Sheldon, where she has taught
continuously for tae past eighteen
years. During the school year of 1890
1891 the board manifested its apprecia-
ton of her ability by rendering her the
position of high school assistant and
the subsequent yearunanimonsly cleo
ted her principal of the high school, a
position which she has since filled with
conspicuous ability and success.
Miss Jones career as an educator has
been characterized by an interest and
enthusiasm rare even in those most de-
voted to their profession; in her endeav-
ors to familiarize herself with the
most approved systems of education she
has visited thirty-seven different states
and territories and personally investi-
gated, not only their systems of common
school, but also many of their institu-
tons of higher education. She has thus
attained broad comprehension of the
merits and defects of our educational
system which admirably qualities her
for the position to which she has been
elected. She has been one of the most
constant attendants at the various
eUucdLlOndl gatherings, DOIn SJdUe anu
national, and has twice filled the posi-
ton of secretary of the Northwestern
Iowa Teachers association.
In her administration of the high
school, with which she has been so long
connected, Miss Jones has manifested
rare executive ability, and the people
of O'Brien county are to be congratu-
lated in their selection for this impor-
tant office one so admirably qualified to
administer its duties in such manner
as to subserve the highest educational
interests of the county.
1t is matter of qualification to all in
terested in the improvement of our ed
vocational system that the county super
intendency is. each year attracting to
itself better talent, and the fact that ed
ucators of ability and experience, quail
fed to solve the important problems
presented to them by the most approved
methods of modern education, are
accepting the office is one of the most
hopeful indications of the future devel-
opment and perfection of our system of
common schools.