>From History of Rock County, Wisconsin, publ. 1879 - page 753 CHARLES E. JONES was born Feb. 18, 1844, at Litchfield, Herkimer Co., N.Y., and came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1850, locating at Magnolia, fourteen miles west of Janesville; from Litchfield he went to Magnolia, and then to Red Wing, Minn., where he went to school, and where he was engaged part of one summer on a brick-yard; he then went to Janesville and was employed by H. E. PATTERSON; from there he engaged with the Milwaukee & Prairie du Chien Railroad, first as fireman and then as engineer, for fourteen months; then went to Davenport, Iowa, and learned the machine business; he was then engaged with the Northern Line Packet Steamship Company, and was engineer of the steamer Muscatine for one year; in 1864, was engineer of the steamer Edward Walsh, a transport for the United States troops, and was in the employ of the Government until the spring of 1865; he was also engineer of the gunboat Elta; he then went to Chicago and engaged as engineer with the Atlantic & Mississip! pi Steamship Company, and was engineer of the steamers J. C. Swan and Mollie Able; in March, 1867, he went to Janesville, and in April 1867, came to Beloit and entered the employ of the MERRILL & HOUSTON Iron Company, first as a journeyman, then as foreman, and afterward in traveling and putting up their work. Mr. JONES was engineer of steam fire engine No. 2, of Janesville, for eight months. He married, March 1, 1868, Delia E. SMITH, of Port Washington, Wis.; has three children living - Cora, Burt and Bessie. Mrs. JONES is a member of the Second Congregational Church at Beloit.