John H. Jones and Carrie Otis Jones
John H. Jones (c. 1834 – 1902) and Carolyn or Carrie Otis Jones (died 1909) were a pioneer husband and wife in Los Angeles, California, whose real estate holdings became worth millions of dollars by the beginning of the 20th century. John H. Jones was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, the governing body of the city. John H. Jones John H. Jones was born about 1834 in Chester, Massachusetts. He had a sister, later Mrs. F. J. Hall. In 1852 or 1854 he married Carolyn Otis. In that same year he took ship around Cape Horn and debarked at the port of San Pedro, California, and made his way to Los Angeles "with a $20 gold piece and nothing else in the way of worldly possessions but the clothes on his back." He was hired by Don Abel Stearns to take care of horses and to be a general caretaker: His first job was to put together a collection of furniture that had come from the East. John H. Jones died in his 258 East Adams Street home on February 12, 1903, at the age of sixty-nine, with a diagnosis of heart illness. A funeral service was