Bio: Jones, William T. (1881)
Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

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Surnames: Jones, Nash, Compton, Spafford

----Source: History of Northern Wis. (Wood County, Wis.) 1881, pages 1208-1209

WILLIAM T. JONES, merchant, Centralia, was born in Geneva, Wis., Nov. 21, 1856. His father, John Jones, moved to Madison, Wis., in 1869, where he still resides. He received a common and high school education in Madison. Came to Grand Rapids in 1872 and clerked for Spafford & Compton four years; then entered into partnership with Spafford, where he remained until the Spring of 1879, when he formed a partnership with L. M. Nash, in their present business of dealers in hardware, building material and agricultural machinery. Mr. Jones was married, Dec. 25, 1876, to Miss Carrie Compton, of Grand Rapids. They have one child, Delia.

 

 


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