HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III, pp. 1237-38. [Bourbon County] JOHN W. JONES--One of the steadfast and popular financial institutions of Bourbon county is the North Middletown Deposit Bank, and the same is favored in having as one of its executives John W. Jones, who is the efficient incumbent of the office of cashier and who is numbered among the essentially representative citizens and business men of the younger generation in his native county. Mr. Jones was born on the family homestead, in North Middletown precinct, Bourbon county, on the 24th of November, 1884, and is a son of William S. and Emma (Collins) Jones, concerning whom specific mention is made on other pages of this work, so that a repetition of the data concerning the family genealogy and the noteworthy career of the honored father is not demanded in the present article. John W. Jones was reared to the invigorating discipline of the farm, and after completing the curriculum of the public schools he entered the Kentucky Classical & Business College, at North Middletown, in which well ordered institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1903. Soon afterward he assumed the position of bookkeeper in the North Middletown Deposit Bank, and after retaining this incumbency for several months he returned to the home farm, with whose management he continued to be actively associated until November, 1907, when he resumed the position of bookkeeper in the bank. Definite recognition of his ability and effective services was that accorded in January, 1909, when he was advanced to the office of assistant cashier. In this position he manifested marked facility in the directing and handling of the executive details of the business, and the official estimate of the same was significantly shown in April, 1910, when he was chosen cashier of the institution, an office in which he has amply justified the confidence thus reposed in him and in which he did much to facilitate and expand the business of the bank. He is a young man of progressive ideas and sterling character and he has won to himself the high regard of those with whom he has come in contact in business and social circles. Though never an aspirant for public office, Mr. Jones is loyal to all civic duties and responsibilities and his political allegiance is given to the Democrat party. Both he and his wife are active and valued members of the Christian church in North Middletown and they are prominent in connection with the best social affairs of the community. On the 23rd of February, 1910, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Jones to Miss Beulah E. Bridges, who was born in Franklin county, this state, on the 27th of November, 1884, and who is a daughter of Benjamin F. and Sarah R. (Moreland) Bridges, now residents of Georgetown, Scott county. Jones Collins Bridges Moreland = Franklin-KY Georgetown-Scott-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bourbon/jones.jw.txt