Sacramento County
Biographies
CHRIS R.
JONES
CHRIS R. JONES.--A thoroughly wide-awake and experienced man of real estate affairs is Chris R. Jones, vice-president of the Hickman-Coleman Company of Sacramento, now residing at 1115 Forty-third Street and having his offices at 724 J Street. His parents were both English, his father, William E. Jones, having married Phoebe Parker; and the mother has passed away. For the past thirty-five years William E. Jones has been engaged in the service of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, in the car shops, and during that time he has never failed to maintain a high standard in his work.
Chris R. Jones went to the grammar and then to the high school, in Sacramento, and for five years he engaged in the newspaper business. Then he was a real estate salesman for five years, and in April, 1917, he became affiliated with, and a director of the Hickman-Coleman Company, the prominent realtors, dealing in real estate and insurance. Two years ago, he was made vice-president of the concern. He is an ex-director of the Chamber of Commerce and has contributed what he could toward making that organization so effective in the expansion of commercial affairs in northern California. He is also one of the organizers and a former president of the Sacramento Realtors’ Association.
In 1913, at Sacramento, Mr. Jones was married to Miss Effie Buell, a native daughter of an old and well-known pioneer family; and their domestic life has been brightened by the addition of three children: Warren E., and the twins, Chris R., Jr., and Hugh D. Mr. Jones is a vice-president of the California Real Estate Association and belongs to the Native Sons of the Golden West and the Elks, and he is also a member of the Y. M. C. A., and the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Sacramento. He was formerly director of the Rotary Club. Mr. Jones marches with the Republicans, and in every way seeks to improve civic life by elevating the standards of politics. He was a member of the Board of Freeholders under the charter election, which gave Sacramento the manager form of government, and is a booster for his locality, always striving to support the best men and the best measures.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 890.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.