Herschel Vespasian Jones Collection, 1886-1965

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Herschel Vespasian Jones Collection, 1886-1965

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1q2n9983

.2 linear feet; (1 half-size box)

eng,

University of California, Santa Barbara. Davidson Library. Department of Special Collections.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6649392

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Jones, Herschel V. (Herschel Vespasian), 1861-1928

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Herschel Vespasian Jones was born August 30, 1861, in Jefferson, New York, to William S. Jones and Helen ( née Merchant). Herschel married Lydia Augusta Wilcox in 1885 and had seven children: Tessie Wilcox (b. 1886), Carl Waring (1887), Florence Purrington (1889), Paul Merchant (b. 1890), Jefferson (b. 1891), Herschel V., Jr. (b. 1893), Moses Chase (b. 1894), and Frances Lois (b. 1895). Herschel began working at a small Jefferson, New York newspaper when he was 15 years ...