BIO: Harry L. JONES, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 863 & 864.
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  HARRY L. JONES, a prominent citizen of Kylertown, Pa., and justice of the 
peace and president of the school board of Cooper township, was born on the site 
of the house in which he now resides in Kylertown, Clearfield county, Pa., 
September 4, 1868, a son of Ferdinand H. and Martha (Austin) Jones.
  Joseph H. Jones, the paternal grandfather of Harry L. Jones, was of Welsh 
descent, and was a brickmaker by trade, making the brick for the first brick 
buildings at Clearfield, where he died.  On the maternal side Mr. Jones is 
descended from James Austin, who died in Center county aged eighty-five years.  
Joseph H. Jones had four children:  Zacharias, who is living in Missouri aged 
seventy-five years; Ferdinand H.; Alexander, who is deceased; and Lydia, who 
died at Philipsburg.  James Austin was the father of six children, of whom 
William went to the army during the Civil war and was never again heard from; 
Nancy married John Straub, a machinist of Bellefonte; Margaret was the wife of 
Amos Tison and resided near the State College in Center county; Martha became 
the wife of Ferdinand H. Jones; Elizabeth is a widow and resides at Boalsburg, 
and the youngest died in childhood.
  Ferdinand H. Jones was born in June, 1841, and since 1860 has been a resident 
of Kylertown, where he has been engaged at the carpenter's trade,  He married 
Martha Austin, a native of Center county, and they became the parents of five 
children, namely:  James, who died at the age of twenty-three years of typhoid 
fever; Harry L.; Grace, who married Harry Denning of Philipsburg; William 
Walter, a carpenter near Milesburg, who married Agatha Ammerman of Center 
county; and Harvey G., a dentist with offices at Kylertown and Winburne, who 
married Mary Beam.
  Harry L. Jones attended the schools of Kylertown, completing his education at 
the age of seventeen years, when he took up telegraphy and was employed for 
eight years by the Beech Creek (now New York Central) Railroad.  He was first 
elected justice of the peace in 1896, and he has served for almost fifteen 
consecutive years, now being in his third term in that office.  He is serving 
his second term as president of the school board of Cooper township, and in 
every way has shown himself efficient and capable and worthy the trust reposed 
in him by his fellow townsmen.  His politics are those of the Republican party.  
Fraternally he is connected with Forest City Lodge, No. 176, I. O. O. F. of 
Kylertown, and Lodge No. 310, O. U. A. M., and he also holds membership in 
Kylertown Grange No. 1406.  He is a Presybertian in his religious belief.
  Mr. Jones was married in June, 1895, to Miss Flora Belle Schreck, a daughter 
of John A. and Mary Schreck, and to this union there have been born six 
children, namely:  Theresa Irene, Harold, Ruel, Malin and Lois and Louise, 
twins.