Wiley Jones at his thoroughbred stable with Excaliber, [1895] [graphic]. 1895.

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Arkansas History Commission. Wiley Jones at his thoroughbred stable with Excaliber, [1895] [graphic].

Wiley Jones at his thoroughbred stable with Excaliber, [1895] [graphic]. 1895.

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Negative taken of Wiley Jones posing with his thoroughbred Excaliber in front of his stable at East 19th Avenue and Georgia Street in Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas in 1895. Wiley Jones was born in Madison County, Georgia on July 14, 1848. He moved to Jefferson County in 1853, with his white planter father (George Jones), his slave mother (Ann) and 40 slaves, including five siblings. He was given to a Texas family, but returned to Pine Bluff after the Civil War, where he became a businessman and philanthropist. Initially he was a barber and part-time waiter, but soon bought a saloon, operated the first streetcar in Pine Bluff, and purchased stables and Jones Park in the late 1880s. Jones Park, a 55-acre park named after Wiley Jones, included a racetrack. He was an active Republican, a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Colored Industrial Institute, and gave a large donation for the construction of the St. James A.M.E Church at Popular and West Fourth Street in Pine Bluff. Jones died on December 7, 1904.

1 copy negative : b&w ; 13 x 10 cm. (5 x 4 in.)

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