San Francisco County
Biographies
EDWARD
MORGAN JONES.
In optometry and drugless healing, one of the prominent practitioners of San Francisco is Dr. Edward Morgan Jones of 209 Post street. He was born in Nortonville, California, March 5, 1881, and is a son of the late William T. and Mary Ann (Davies) Jones.
William T. Jones was born in Wales and when nineteen years old came to the United States. He first settled in Pennsylvania, whence in 1865 he came to California by the Isthmus of Panama route. He was a master mechanic by trade, and first engaged in prospecting. Later, however, he was in the employ of a mining company. He died in Washington in 1900, at the age of fifty-nine years. His wife was born in Pontypridd, Wales, and was brought to the United States by her parents when she was a child. Her family first made their home in Pennsylvania, then later settled in Nortonville, California, where her father conducted a hotel. Her death occurred when she was only twenty-five years old, and when Edward Morgan Jones was two years old. By her marriage she was the mother of two daughters and one son, namely: Charlotte Ann, who is the wife of Joseph Haiden of San Francisco; Amelia, who is married to Hugh Campbell of Oakland; and the subject of this review.
Dr. Jones first attended the public schools of Black Diamond, Washington, and then studied in Washington State College from 1898 to 1900. From 1902 until 1904 he studied optometry in the Clise Optical Institute, later continuing his professional training in the California College of Optometry, from which institution he received the degree of Doctor of Optometry, in the year 1907. He was a student at the Western College of Chiropratic & Drugless Therapy in San Francisco in 1920 and 1921, and in 1923 he passed his medical examination.
The career of Dr. Jones, especially in his earlier years, was one of diversity. He found it necessary to earn his own living, but he was inspired with ambition to reach higher things and by constant effort he eventually attained his goal. In his youth he desired to become an actor, but his father, who was very religious, regarded acting as sinful and objected. The son respected the wishes of his honored sire, and turned the course of his life into other channels. He first learned the blacksmithing trade, and when only fifteen years old worked in the mines. He earned his way through college, and after his graduation in optometry he engaged in active practice in Bellingham, Washington, during the years 1904 and 1905. He then moved to Seattle in 1906, and there joined his wife’s relatives in the theatrical business. He withdrew from this occupation in the next year, and came to San Francisco to enter practice in this city, which he has since continued with marked success. Dr. Jones has augmented his optometry work by chiropractic and drugless healing, having been admitted to practice in this form of treatment in 1925. He is a member of the San Francisco Association of Optometrists, also the American Association of Drugless Physicians. His offices are at 209 Post street.
Dr. Jones was married in San Francisco, September 6, 1902, to Miss Carlotta Butler, who was born in Arkansas, a daughter of Dr. S. L. and Ginevra (Felker) Butler. Dr. and Mrs. Jones are the parents of two sons: Harold Butler, born December 9, 1903, in Bellingham, Washington; and Rogert Lee, born June 15, 1912, in Oakland, California. In the latter city, Dr. Jones has his residence, situated at 2701 Sixty-eighth avenue.
In fraternal affairs, the Doctor has been active. He is past president of the San Francisco Loyal Knights of the Round Table. In Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, belonging to Standard Lodge, No. 440, F. & A. M., of which he is past master, and to Oakland Consistory. He is past toparch of the Sciots and also belongs to the Knights of Pythias and to the Commonwealth Club. He has taken an exceptional interest in the welfare of young boys and in their sports and character building. He has often lectured in their behalf, and gives every available moment of his time to this work which is close to his heart.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Byington, Lewis Francis, “History of
San Francisco 3 Vols”, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1931. Vol. 2 Pages 371-373.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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