Albert F. Jones

Albert F. Jones was born on February 14, 1858, in Colusa County, California. His father was a native of New Hampshire and his mother of Kentucky. In his early life he clerked in a grocery store at Chico, California. He lived in California all his life and in Butte County, California for eighteen years. He was District Attorney of Butte county in 1883–1884. He graduated from the law department of Yale College with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1879. He was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of California in August 1879.[1]

On December 21, 1881, he married Miss May S. Evans, of Marysville, California, daughter of O.M. Evans and Jane H. Baldwin, natives of Maine and Connecticut. The Jones had hree children: George Foster Jones, Grace Jones Hall, and Albert I. Jones.[2]

On March 6, 1880, Jones was appointed Major and Judge Advocate on the staff of Brigadier General Cadwalader commanding the Fifth Brigade.[3]

By profession he was an Attorney at law. He was Grand Lecturer and President of the Native Sons of the Golden West from 1883–1884. He was elected District Attorney of Butte County.[4]

In 1882, Tirey L. Ford moved to Oroville to practice law in partnership with Senator Albert F. Jones, under the firm name of Jones & Ford. This partnership lasted for one year when Ford moved to Downieville, California.[5]

In 1886, Jones was elected State Senator from the Fourth district, and served two sessions.[4]

Jones died on February 15, 1920 in Oroville, California. Funeral services were on February 18, 1920. His obituary said that: "Major Jones was the senior member of the bar of Butte County, and is the last of the old bar, which in time past brought honor and fame to this court, for the high standard of legal ethics set and maintained by them."[6]