Frederick Jones

H. W. Beckwith, History of Vermilion County (Chicago: H. H. Hill, 1879)

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Frederick Jones, Catlin, dry-goods, was born in London, England, on the 28th of May, 1844, and came with a colony of twenty-four persons to this county in 1849, and settled at Butler's Point. The family consisted of seven children: Arthur, Richard (now deceased), Sarah E., Eliza, Emily, Louisa and our subject. Mr. Jones was united in marriage on the 5th of December, 1866, to Miss Harriet A. Dickinson, who was born in England on the 28th of December, 1847. By this union they have seven children: James, Emma, Richard, Harriet A., Sarah, Frederick and Elizabeth.