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 CLYDE E. JONES is one of the prominent younger members of the Ottumwa bar, and like many other forceful men in the professions and in business in Iowa today a background of service during the World war was in a manner his introduction to the serious affairs of life. Mr. Jones was born at Agency, Iowa, February 20, 1895. Three generations of the family have lived in this section of Iowa. His grandfather, Levi Jones, was born in Wales, and after coming to the United States lived in Pennsylvania and later moved out to Agency, Iowa. The father of Clyde E. Jones is Edward R. Jones, who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1860, and was brought to Iowa about 1869. For many years he has been one of the well known farmers and stock men of Agency. He married Harriett Verdow. Clyde E. Jones was graduated the Agency High School in 1913 and followed this with four years in the University of Iowa, in the school of Liberal Arts. He took the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1917, and his scholarship record earned him election as a Phi Beta Kappa. His junior year in law was spent in the George Washington University at Washington, D. C., and in 1919 the University of Iowa conferred upon him the degree LL. B. He is a member of the Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity, and his scholarship record earned him membership in the Order of the Coif. In the meantime he had enlisted at Ottumwa and was in training, being finally in the Replacement Camp at Camp Forrest, Georgia. After being admitted to the bar he settled down to the general practice of law at Ottumwa, where he has offices in the Ottumwa National Bank Building. He is a member of O. B. Nelson Post of the American Legion and has been prominent in various fraternal organizations. He is a York and Scottish Rite Mason, member of the Shrine and Grotto, belonging to the Consistory and Kaaba Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Davenport. He is a past exalted ruler of Ottumwa Lodge No. 347, B. P. O. Elks, is a past district deputy grand exalted ruler of the South East District of Iowa, and president of the Iowa State Association of Elks. He is also a member of teh Knights of Pythias, and his family are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Jones married in Chicago, March 20, 1919, Miss Verl E. Brown, of that city. Her parents, John W. and Clara (Shehan) Brown, came from Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have two daughters, Barbara Jean and Margot Dean. 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/)