Jones, Morgan, 1840-1926.

Railroad builder, entrepreneur. Born in 1840 in Wales. Immigrated to the U.S. shortly after the end of the Civil War and began working for the Union Pacific Railroad. After completion of the westward link with the Central Pacific, Jones moved to Texas in the 1870s to build with the Southern Transcontinental, which later became the Southern Pacific Railway. Before his death in 1926, Jones had built lengthy sections of the Texas and Pacific; the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe; and the Fort Worth and Denver City railroads. Was also active in the short-line boom in Texas, and also had interests in banking, real estate, lumber, mining, cotton oil mills and cattle. Jones never married. He died in Abilene, Texas, in 1926.