While a resident of Water-
boro, Me., he served as selectman, and also as postmaster at Waterboro Center.
In 1909 he was a member of the legislature for this district. He belongs to
the Odd Fellows and to Post No. I, G. A. R. He is a man devoid of sec-
tional feeling, however, being an American in the broad sense of the term, a
champion of equal rights to all men. He has delivered speeches on political
or other topics all over New England, usually to large and appreciative au-
diences. He and his wife are affiliated with the Unitarian church.
In the fall of 1914 Captain Jones sold his property in Portsmouth and
moved to Lawrence, Mass., and in so doing deprived Portsmouth of one of
her most valued citizens. At a farewell reception given tohim by the mem-
bers of his Grand Army Post and Woman's Relief Corps in Portsmouth, he
was presented with a beautiful gold ring as a token of the regard and esteem
in which he was held, and his wife with a brooch. He and his estimable
wife left many friends in Portsmouth, as few people were better known or
more highly esteemed here.