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Edward Wadsworth Jones (1840–1934), known also as E.W. Jones, was an officer in the American Civil War, a miner in Idaho and Utah and an entrepreneur in Los Angeles, California. He was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, the governing body of that city in the 19th Century. ==Personal== Jones was born November 28, 1840, in New Hartford, Connecticut, and spent his youth in Tennessee, where he studied at the state university.〔(''An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California,'' Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company (1890), page 519 )〕 In 1863 he married Ellen Carter Spencer of Illinois in Washington, D.C.〔〔 In 1871 Jones settled with his family in Salt Lake City for ten years, spent a year in New York and finally moved his household to Los Angeles in August 1882.〔 He died December 8, 1934, in the family home at 1540 South Wilton Place〔() Location of the Jones residence on ''Mapping L.A.''〕 in the Arlington Heights district, leaving a son, Edward Conde Jones of Paris, France, and two daughters, Mrs. J. Forsyth of Los Angeles and Mrs. Louise J. Dobbins of Monterey, California. Cremation services were at Rosedale Cemetery.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Wadsworth Jones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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