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Johnny J. Jones : ウィキペディア英語版 | Johnny J. Jones Johnny J. Jones (June 8, 1874 – December 25, 1930) was an American carnival showman, the founder and manager of the Johnny J. Jones Exposition. The Exposition was one of the first to use steel railroad cars and one of the largest of its kind, exceeded in size only by the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. In operation for over 50 years through the continental United States and Canada, the show reached a total of 50 steel cars carrying 100 wagons during its heyday in the 1920s. ==Personal life== A native of Arnot, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, Jenkins was the son of Welsh immigrants, working alongside his father in the local coal mines from the age of ten.〔The primary biographers of Johnny J. Jones are historians Bob Goldsack and Joe McKennon. See Bob Goldsack, ''A History of the Johnny J. Jones Exposition: ‘The Might Monarch of the Tented World’'', Midway Publications, Nashua, NH (1990) (hereinafter “Goldsack”) and Joe McKennon, “The Pictorial History of the American Carnival, Volume II”, Carnival Publishers of Sarasota, Florida (1972) (hereinafter “McKennon”); see also Fred Dahlinger, Jr.'s ''Show Trains of the 20th Century'', Circus World Museum (2000).〕 He graduated to hawking newspapers first on the streets and then aboard the Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train, where he also sold sandwiches, cigars and sundries. Du Bois, Pennsylvania historian Major Israel McCreight recalled: “After the arrival of the 1 o'clock train Johnny J. Jones could be heard yelling at the top of his voice, "Pittsburgh Gazette; all about the big fire." 〔M.I. McCreight, Memory Sketches of Du Bois Pennsylvania 1874-1938: A History (1938) at p.7., Goldsack at p.7〕 Jones wed Etta Louise "Hody" Hurd in 1920 and fathered a son, Johnny J. Jones, Jr. (1921).〔McKennon at p.24 and Goldsack at p. 17.〕 In his mid-40s at the time, he would not have long with his family. Jones had developed an alcohol problem in his youth, and in the mid 1920s was hospitalized for alcoholism. The impact on his health was profound. He died of renal failure at the age of 56 on Christmas Day in 1930.〔McKennon at p.24.〕
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