Dan C. Jones
The many opportunities presented to the lawyer for varied service has been well utilized by Dan C. Jones, who is in the front rank of Lawrence County lawyers, and has a high standing and many associations with the business, social and civic life of his home city.
Mr. Jones was born December 18, 1878, at Oak Hill in Jackson County, Ohio. His father, the late Evan C. Jones, who was also born at Oak Hill in Jackson County in 1841 was for a number of years county surveyor and an expert mining engineer, whose death occurred September 15, 1910. Two of Dan C. Jones' uncles, John C. Jones and David C. Jones were the pioneer operators in the Jackson County coal field, and John C. Jones was secretary of the Tropic Furnace Company at Jackson, Ohio, for many years. The mother's maiden name was Margaret Parry, who was born at Oak Hill in Jackson County in 1852 and died in 1912. They were the parents of five children: Dan C., Susie, Elizabeth, Margaret and Edna.
Dan C. Jones began training for practical life in the common schools and in the high school at Jackson, graduated with the degree Ph. B. at the Ohio State University in 1902 and continued his course through the law department until finishing with the degree LL. B. in 1905. During his college career he was a member of the Greek letter fraternities Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the Phi Delta Phi, and also belonged to the Scholarship Honor Society, Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Jones began active practice of law at Ironton in 1905 with Johnson and Corn, and afterwards became the junior partner in the law firm of Johnson and Jones, and soon acquired a profitable practice. Much of his work is performed as representative of a number of important business and industrial concerns in the Hanging Rock Iron Region.
Mr. Jones was married June 17, 1908. to Marguerite Blanche Jones, who has brought to the management of her home and her social relations a thorough training and culture acquired in Oberlin College, from which she graduated A. B. and also at the Boston Conservatory of Music and later studied in Europe. Her father is Ezekial Jones, a large coal operator in Jackson County.
Mr. Jones is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the Masons, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and also with the Century Club, and his church is the Presbyterian. Mr. Jones is a student, both in his profession and of affairs and literature, and is one of the live men who are forwarding the community welfare of Ironton along progressive and substantial lines.
From "A Standing History of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio" by Eugene B. Willard, Daniel W. Williams, George O. Newman and Charles B. Taylor. Published by Lewis Publishing Company, 1916