Background
Jones, Jefferson was born on April 5, 1891 in Minneapolis. Son of Herschel V. and Lydia A. (Wilcox) Jones.
Jones, Jefferson was born on April 5, 1891 in Minneapolis. Son of Herschel V. and Lydia A. (Wilcox) Jones.
Graduate Lawrenceville (New Jersey) School, 1912.
With City News Bureau, Chicago, 1912, Minneapolis Journal, 1913, Japan Advertiser, Tokyo, 1914-1915. The only American correspondent permitted to go with the Anglo-Japanese expedition against the German colony of Kiaochow, China, 1914. With Washington bureau Minneapolis Journal, 1916.
Vice president Journal Printing Company, 1928-1939.
Now assistant to president, Federal Cartridge Corporation.
Member American Asiatic Society. Member executive council Minnesota History Society. Served in the Adriatic with submarine chaser detachment 2, United States Navy, 1917-1918.
Married Ruth Gedney, December 27, 1919. Children: Mistress Sarah Arnot, Elizabeth Wilcox, Herschel, Jefferson.