A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 CECIL C. JONES is one of the prominent younger men in the profession of medicine and surgery at Des Moines, and ranks among the first in the state as an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist. Doctor Jones was born at Topeka, Kansas, May 27, 1892, son of William C. and Ella (Cain) Jones, his father a native of Indiana and his mother of Kentucky. William C. Jones, still a resident of Topeka, has spent a great many years in the service of the Rock Island Railway Company and is superintendent at Topeka. He is a Republican in politics, a member of the Masonic fraternity and Woodmen of the World, and both he and his wife, who is now deceased, were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had a family of three sons: Dr. Cecil C.; Russell, connected with the Rock Island Railway at El Reno, Oklahoma; and Howard, a practicing attorney at Topeka. Cecil C. Jones attended school in Topeka, and came to Iowa for his professional training at the University of Iowa, from which he was graduated M. D. in 1920. For two years he was an interne in the State Hospital, and had one year of study abroad at Vienna, where he came under instruction and attended clinics for special training in eye, ear, nose and throat. His practice has been limited to his specialty. Doctor Jones has his offices in the Equitable Building at Des Moines. He is a member of the American Academy of Oto-Laryngology and is a member of the Polk County, Iowa State and American Medical Associations. He has membership in the Wakonda Club and is a Sigma Nu and Phi Rho Sigma. Doctor Jones married in 1923 Elsie Laurine Johnson, who was born at Wall Lake, Iowa, and was educated in Morningside College at Sioux City, Iowa, and the University of Iowa. Mrs. Jones is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Debbie Clough Gerischer _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) _http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm) _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)