The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 817

CHARLES A. JONES, D. V. S.

Dr. Charles A. Jones, one of the well known veterinary surgeons of Yakima, was
born on the 6th of February, 1885, in the county which is still his home, his
parents being W.  F. and Jennie (Hanson) Jones, both of whom were natives of
Oregon. The paternal grandfather, W. R. Jones, of Ohio, crossed the plains to
the northwest in 1852, making the journey with ox teams to Walla Walla and then
down the Columbia river to Eugene, Oregon, where a settlement was made. W. R.
Jones was a carpenter by trade and followed that pursuit at Eugene for some time
but eventually came with his son, W. F. Jones, to the Yakima valley in 1879. The
two took up homesteads and entered the live stock business, in which the
grandfather continued to the time of his death in 1904. The father is still
living and is now engaged in the real estate business in Yakima. For years,
however, he was one of the extensive stock raisers of this section of the
country and had six hundred or more head of cattle and horses upon his ranch.
His wife, who passed away in 1889, was a daughter of one of the pioneers of the
northwest, her father having come to this section of the country at a very early
day.

Dr. Jones acquired a public school education and later attended high school in
Yakima and Washington State College at Pullman. In preparation for a
professional career he entered the Toronto Veterinary College of Toronto,
Canada, and was graduated therefrom with the class of 1908. He has since taken
post-graduate work in the McKillip Veterinary College of Chicago in the years
1915 and 1916. He has practiced his profession in Yakima for the past ten years
and during the intervening period he has enjoyed a large patronage, for the
value of his service is widely recognized. He seems to almost intuitively
recognize the need and the cause back of it, and his services have been of great
value. He is the oldest veterinary surgeon of Yakima and since 1917 he has
practiced as senior partner in the firm of Jones & MacKintosh.

On the 15th of October, 1910, Dr. Jones was married to Miss Loie B. Cruver, of
Grantsburg, Wisconsin. He belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and
also to the Commercial Club of Yakima, while his political allegiance is given
to the democratic party, of which he has always been a stanch advocate. His
activities center in his profession and his thoroughness and enterprise have
brought him prominently to the front in this connection.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.