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ARCHITECT NAME . . J o~ J~ S av ID . . ... .· ; ... . P ·. DATE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH . PIACE OF PRACTICE · TYPE OF PR'1CTICE . OCciD~ .: ~ 1 other · LU r-J\Bt::. f= · . J Bk.Df' , FIRMS ASSOCIATED WITH · ___J-.;0:.:...:1-.~.\E : _·S .;.--;. ~- 0-.:...f2_00 ____________ MATERIAL AVAILABLE UNDER ___,;; .J_.. O"'-N__ e:=s_,L "----,;; .~ ~ · _ v,.. p_ :;; o__.;..- - - - - - - - - - - - - DAVID D. JONES. ) train and continued his journey westward to Utah, arriving. in Ogden on the 2d of June. He has ever since made the Juncti61i City bis permanent home. After his arriYal he entered the druggist establishment of William Driver & Son, as clerk, with whom he remained for several years. In 1878, he made a short business trip to England, and was absent about three months. · In 1881 Mr. Driver decided to commence business for himself. For this purpose be opened an establishment on the corner of Fourth and Young streets. Here he <lid a thriYing trade for one year and half. He then moved to )fain Street, on the west side, a few doors north of Z. C. M:. I. Since that time his business has expanded, and his establishment bas become popular, and he has continued to increase in favor with his patrons. As a man, Mr. Jesse J. Driver is honest, peaceable, industrious; as a citizen, he is loyal, law-abiding and patriotic; and as a man of business, he is energetic, prompt, and courteous. a I. I \: I I I: l I ' , I DAVID D. JONES. The Ogden Herald, in its New Year's issue for 1886, writing the current record of business men and business firms which it deemed worthy to represent Ogden's business character for the year, places the Idaho Lumber Company and its manager, DaYid D. Jones, conspicuously to the front. It notes the business, with a descriptive character-touch of the manager, as follows: "The Idaho Lumber Company was established in Ogdeu in J ~82. It is a very enterprising and progressiYe concern, and has already taken a foremost plac~ among the leading dealers in lumber in this and adjoining Territories. This company carries an immense stock of lumber of all sorts, doors, sash, blinds, lath, shingles, pickets, flooring, rustic siding, stair railings, brackets, balustrades, glass, oil panels, etc. The Idaho Lumber Company not only handles lumber on a large scale, but it also manufactures everything in the lumber line kept in stock. The company does a very large business, both wholesale and retail, not only throughout Northern Utah, but with the adjacent country as well. "The manager of this company is the :well and favorabl)' known D. D. Jones, a gentleman distinguished for his conservative and public business policy, and also widely known as a first- , class, able and enterprising architect and builder. Personally '\ Ii ~. 11 , I ~ !I : j' 11 . ! iI: I' I l I: I· 1. \ • 288 TULLIDGE 1 S HISTORIES. Mr. Jones is distinguished for his amiable and philosophical penetration. He makes no pretense to display, is not ostentatious or supercilious, and is not only a very pleasant man to deal with, but he is also most agreeable and instructive to converse with. He has a carefully stored mind and i:; a trained thinker. As an architect he has a high order of renius and skill." David D. Jones was born in Monmouthshire, England, and is of Welsh origin. He was regularly apprenticed and learned his trade as a builder, and, so early did he manifest his characteristic energy and self-reliance, that he was a contractor in Newport, a place of 30,000 inhabitants, before he was nineteen year,, of age. His com:titutional love of adventure and breadth of life led him into the British service. He was two years and two hundred and nineteen days in the British army and navy on foreig1i service, after which he returned to England and carried on business as a builder. He again left England and traveled in Ireland, and engaged as a carpenter on board the National Steam Navigation Company, in which service he made seYeral trips from New York to Liverpool. In 1864 we find Mr. Jones in the United States seryice. He went south in that year and served the United States till the close of the "Tar, after which he returned to the sphere of a civilian. Still manifesting his native love of adventurous service, he now lectured in the interest of the Trades' Union in New York. At a subsequent date, bespoke in the interest of the strike on the New York Central,New York & Erie, and Lake Sh')re railroads; and while speaking in Buffalo, he was engaged by the Union Pacific Railroad to hire men in Canada to chop the first ties for the Union Pacific road. In 1865 Mr. Jones crossed the Plains, intending to go through California to India and Australia. On the way he was snow bound. He arrived at Bridger in December, 1865; and being financially exhausted he was compelled to seek employment. He "boiled salt" on the Island of the Great Salt Lake, chopped wood in the mountains, herded stock, broke horses, in fine, put his hand energetically to the work which was presented in his wav. In :riiarch, 18G6, he came to Salt Lake City; and from that time he became a regular settler of the country. Here he followed the business of a contractor, and formed a partnership with J. Groo and S. Richards. This company built several miles of the Union Pacific road, under the firm name of Jones & Groo. Since that he has been constantly engaged as a contractor and builder, and a lumber merchant until the present time. JleC the wh isb bo1 Ne W, tra fev to dh to COl thE tri, -reE of on ba: ag nu ea1 Ei,: sm ra1 Ci w~ th co El al! da ha . -. ~'.~.,"··>·-·'. . • ~if? : . . . . .