George A. Jones

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: From History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties California, Volume 2, 1917, By Charles Montville Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Page 701, 27 May 1879, Ventura, California. George A. Jones. The only capital George A. Jones had when he arrived in Ventura County on the 27th of May, 1879, was his experience as a farm worker, but as that experience had been gained on farms in the Middle West, he was unable to capitalize it effectively.

For the first two years he was employed on Mr. A. Everett's ranch near Montalvo. By that time he was ready to start out as an independent farmer and rancher, and did this by purchasing forty-one acres in the Mound District. Since then he has bought and traded land and has become one of the very successful men in this district. Mr. and Mrs. Jones now own a fine ranch of 100 acres in Ventura County, and it is one of the very profitable bean plantations.
He is a man who has won a commendable station in life by hard work and much energy intelligently employed. He had to depend upon his own resources from an early age. He was born in Richland, Wisconsin, March 4, 1856, a son of Louis W. and Jane (Johnson) Jones, and lived at home with his parents until he was ten years of age. During that time he gained all the education he was to receive from public schools, and had some training as a farm worker. After that he worked out by the month on various farms until he came out to California in 1879.
Mr. Jones is a republican and a Protestant in religion. In Ventura County, November 27, 1881, he married Miss Caroline M. Beckwith. They have lived and worked together for nearly thirty-five years and besides their home they have a fine family of three children. Frank, now twenty-seven years of age, is the active manager of his father's ranch. The others are daughters: Mrs. L. L. Dorveau of Ventura County and Mrs. A. G. Walter of Ventura County.

George married Caroline M. Beckwith, daughter of Francis Jefferson Beckwith and Sarah L. Greenamyer, on 27 Nov 1881 in Ventura, California. (Caroline M. Beckwith was born on 20 Sep 1860 in Indiana.)