DR. CHARLES W. JONESDR. CHARLES W. JONES, of Canadian, who successfully and profitably combines the profession of dentistry with cattle ranching, is a native son of Texas and has been identified with its western and northwestern sections, participating in their varied conditions of living and industrial activities, throughout his career. He has been connected with the cattle industry form boyhood up, and it was only after he found himself substantially established in this occupation that he turned his attention to his present profession, in which he has also made a marked success. Dr. Jones was born in Polk county, this state, February 27, 1862, being one of the younger children of Charles and Mary A. (Williamson) Jones, the former a native of Mississippi and the latter born in North Carolina but reared in Mississippi. The family moved to Polk County, Texas, in the fifties, and in 1861 the father enlisted in the Confederate service from that county, and died in the following year, when his son Charles was four months old. In 1869 the mother and her family moved from Polk to what is now Lampasas county, which was then on the frontier and strictly a range country, farming operations not having as yet been introduced. About three years later the family moved into the adjoining county of San Saba. In both these border counties the older sons of the Jones family were frequently compelled, along with their neighbors, to battle with the marauding bands of Indians, who, until 1875, continually harassed the frontier settlements and greatly interfered with settled occupations. About 1877 most of the family left San Saba county, and the mother died in Robertson county in 1878. Dr. Jones, however, remained in San Saba county until 1880, in which year he went to Throckmorton county, where he lived about five years. During all the years of his activity he had been continually in the cattle business, but, on leaving Throckmorton and going to Dickens county, he engaged in the mercantile business in Dickens City for a year or two. After leaving Dickens City he lived for several years at Plainview, in Hale county. In the meantime his inclinations had led him to the profession of dentistry, and he began attendance at the dental college of the University of St. Louis, where he was graduated in 1896. This training was later supplemented in 1896. This training was later supplemented by a post-graduate course in the Southwestern Dental College at Dallas, so that he is well grounded and equipped in his profession and has deserved the large success which has come to him. For several years he practiced at Plainview and other places in the south plains country, and since 1900 he has been located at Canadian in Hemphill county. Besides the large dental practice which he enjoys at that point, he has acquired and operates a cattle ranch fourteen miles northeast of Canadian in Hemphill county, where he has about six sections of land and is doing a very profitable business. While living in Throckmorton county Dr. Jones was married to Miss Joanna Hollis, who died in Dickens county, leaving two children, Walter and Arthur. At Plainview Dr. Jones was married to Bettie Pepper, and by this union there is another son, Fletcher. Dr. Jones and his wife are members of the Christian church, and he has fraternal affiliations with the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Woodmen. B. B. Paddock, History and Biographical Record of North and West Texas (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1906), Vol. II, pp. 204. |
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