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Note: N15 Dropped the name “Truman” and went by “Otis Jones”.
“The Lombard” shows Otis Jones, B.S.; Chicago, 5859 Washington Ave; ‘64-65. Dealer in Agr Imp ‘70-8; At present Sec Hicks Stock Car Co., Pres and Treas Ruttan Mfg. Co. ; 264 Wabash Ave.
President Ruttan Mfg Co-furnaces, Secy Hicks Stock Car Co, board of directors Chemical National Bank. In business with his brother-in-law Edward Junius Edwards, and father-in-law John Edwards. ________
Ruttan Manufacturing Co., Heating and Ventilation Apparatus, No. 68 Lake Street. -
Among the concerns of Chicago, The Ruttan Manufacturing Company, located at No. 68 Lake Street, holds a deservedly prominent place. The premises occupied by the company comprise three large floors, which always contain a heavy stock of their wares. Their foundries are at Bloomington, where about one hundred mechanics are employed in the manufacture of heating and ventilating apparatus, warm-air furnaces, ventilating stoves, etc., their furnaces being made of the finest material and in various excellent designs. They are very extensively used in the private residences, bushiness places and in public buildings, including one third of the public schools of Chicago, and have never failed to afford complete satisfaction. This business was established abut twelve years ago, and under its present wise and judicious management is increasing steadily and rapidly. The officers are: Otis Jones, President and Treasurer; S. L Bailey, Vice-President; F. M Bailey, Secretary. It is one of the most enterprising and successful concerns in the United States, and ranks second to none other as to solvency and thorough reliability.
(from Origin, growth, and usefulness of the Chicago Board of Trade: Its leading members, and representative business men in other branches of trade; Historical Publishing Co., 1885 )
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Director Macon Dublin & Savannah Railroad Co.(?)
OTIS JONES, BS Name formerly "Truman" Otis Jones. Près, and Treas., Ruttan Mfg. Co.. 68 Lake St., Chicago- from The Catalogue of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity By Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, Phi Delta Theta Fraternity Published by s.n., 1894
President of the Exhaust Ventilator Co.
Held patents on Hot Air Furnace (Ruttan Tubular), electrical device, etc.
On the board of directors of Lombard University.
1850 Census - Truman O Jones (5) is living with parents T O Jones (31), Huldah (30) and brother Frank W (2) in Peroria, IL. T O Jones is a shingle maker, and both he and Huldah are reported to have been born in New York.
1870 Census- Otis (24) is a student in Galesburg, Knox, Ill, living with his parents. His father is a pump manufacturer.
1878 - approx - moved to Chicago.
1880 - Lakeside - Chicago City Directory - Jones, Otis, treas Rutlan mnfg. co. 68 Lake, house 3800 Johnson pl
1880 Census-living at 3860 Johnson Place, Chicago, Ill. Otis (35) is a manufacturer of Furnaces. Sarah (32)
1885 - March - The Manufacturer and Builder Vol 0017 Issue 3 - "The Ruttan Furnace Company, of Chicago, Ill., has been incorporated for the purpose of manufacturing heating and ventilating apparatus. Capital stock $10,000. Otis Jones and Truman O. Jones, incorporators."
1885 - Chicago City Directory - Jones, Otis, pres Ruttan mnfg. co. 68 Lake, house 3741 Ellis av
1886- 01-01- Inter Ocean Newspaper: Ventilation and Warming. Ruttan Manufacturing Company (News Article) Date: 1886-01-01; Paper: Inter Ocean
VENTILATION AND WARMING RUTTAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY
To this well-known company, with office at 68 Lake Street, Chicago, Mr Otis Jones, President, are due the public thanks for a system of ventilation and warming the best ever devised, and within the reach of all. Forty school buildings in Chicago are equipped with their apparatus, and it is used and appreciated everywhere throughout the country. By its aid, without draft, and as evenly as moves time or tide, the air of a large room is entirely changed in a very few minutes. The principle utilized in this operation is the law of nature as tested by experience, the exit of foul and cold air being through openings in the base-boards of a room and an abundant supply of fresh, warm air coming from above. The company's foundry works at Bloomington, Ill., were rebuilt the past year to accommodate the greatly increased business, dearly double what it has been.
1889 Hyde Park Directory - entry for Otis Jones, pres. and treas. Ruttan Mnfg. Co. 264 Wabash Ave h Washington av ne cor 59th.
1890 Voter registration-living at 5859 Washington Ave., Chicago, Ill. Otis has been living in the precint 6 months, in the county 12 years, in the state of Illinois, 43 years.
1891 - 3 April - Los Angeles Herald, Volume 35, Number 170
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Jones of Chicago are at the Westminster
1892 - Chicago City Directory - Jones Otis, sec Hicks Stock car co., 956 The Rookery, h. 5859 Washington av
1892 Chicago bluebook show Truman Otis and his wife living at 5859 Washington Ave., Chicago, Illinois, with their son Otis and his wive Sarah Elvira Edwards and her parents John Edwards and Nancy Stockton.
1892 - 29 March San Francisco Call, Volume 71, Number 119
ANOTHER CHICAGO BOODLER INDICTED
CHICAGO, MARCH 28- Just before adjournment for the day the Grand Jury in the boodle cases voted to indict Herely, who besides being a member of the Board of Educatio is an ex-member of the State Senate. The indictment voted will not be returned into court until tomorrow. Testimony was given today by Otis Jones, who swore to paying Herely, through third parties, over $2000 for contracts.
1898 - 25 Sep - Los Angeles Times.”Otis Jones of Chicago, who has been visiting his brother-in-law, returned home...”
1899 - 21 Nov - Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 98, Number 92
Mining Company Incorporated. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20.—The Rio Sucio Mining Company, which purposes to operate in the United States of Colombia, filed articles of incorporation to-day with $250,000 capital, of which $100,000 has been subscribed. J. F. Fargo, N. M. Entler and Jesse F. Watterman each subscribed $32,200, F. E. Fargo contributes $200 and Otis Jones $100. The five men constitute the Board of Directors.
1899 - 21 Nov - Los Angeles Herald, Number 52
LOCAL TRADE REVIEW Trio of Incorporations The Crescent Wharf and company has Incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000, divided into 250 shares, of which amount $12,500 has been subscribed. The directors are: Warren Gillelen, A. F. Schiffman, A. E. Messerly, G. L. McDonough and C. J. Lehman. The Yucaipe Land and Water company has incorporated with a capital stock of $180,000, divided into 1,800 shares, of which amount $160,000 has been subscribed. The* directors are: F. P. Dunlap, Redlands; A. J. Dunlap, San Bernardino; A. H. Dunlap, Whittier; Laura D. Egan, Pomona, and Ida Dunlap, Los Angeles. The Rio Sucio Mining company has incorporated with a capital stock of $250,000, divided Into 2,500 shares, of which amount $100,000 has been subscribed. The directors are: J. F. and F. E. Fargo, N. M. Entler, Otis Jones and Jesse F. Waterman. The purpose of the company Is to operate mines in the United States of Colombia.
1900 Census- Otis Jones is widowed living with father in Los Angeles and working as Real Estate dealer; address 2727 Menlo Ave, Los Angeles Twp, LA, CA
1901 - 8 July - Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXVIII, Number 281
SUPERIOR COURT- NEW ACTIONS
N. M. Entler vs. Otis Jones, accounting. Jessee F Waterman, attorney for plaintiff.
1902 - 24 August - Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXIX, Number 325A Desert Land Vineyard The Kenwood Commercial company, Incorporated In February last for the purpose of reclaiming and Improving a large acreage in the Muscupiabe rancho, near the mouth of Cajon pass, has already expended something over $20,000, says the San Bernardino Sun. The 1750 acres of land that the company secured control of had always been considered as practically desert, and, though many realized that the soil was fertile and tillable and could be easily cultivated If water was secured, no attempt wasever made to improve it until the Kenwood Commercial company secured control. Preparations are being made to install a complete water system, the cost of which is estimated at between $5000 and $6000. Among the Improvements that the company have made is the erection of a nine-room dwelling house and a large stable and the cultivating and setting to grapevines of 175 acres of land. Twelve men are at work on the property, and before next season 400 additional acres will be planted to vines. The work is beling done under the personal supervision of County Surveyor M. L. Cook, who Is a stockholder in the company. The acreage that Is not serviceable for vineyards will be used as grazing and pasturage lands. Back of the company are John A. Devore, Otis Jones and W. S. Williams, wealthy residents of Chicago.
1903 - May 19, Los Angeles, CA; Newspaper announcement of marriage license: “Otis Jones, aged 57, resident of Chicago, and Zaida F Childs, aged 40, resident of Laguna, natives of Illinois.”
1903 - 20 May - Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXX, Number 224
Jones-Childs Miss Zalda Childs of Los Angeles and Otis Jones of Chicago were married Monday afternoon at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Fargo, at 137 West Adams street. Rev. Mr. Conger of Pasadena performed the ceremony. The bride wore a becoming gray suit with hat and gloves of the same shade, and carried a bouquet of sweet peas and maidenhair fern. After a dinner had been served, Mr. and Mrs. Jones left for Chicago, where they will make their home.Dr. and Mrs. Fargo also went east on the same train. They will spend several months visiting friends in the east.
1905 - June 7 - Ad in Los Angeles Hearld:
“FOR EXCHANGE - $7500 - Unusually good house in Ornage; nice new house, large barn and other buildings; 10 acres very best land, producing good income; new high school building within 3/4 mile; want Los ANgeles property; prefer Boyle Heights district. $5000 - 16 acres, with full water stock, in very fine location, in alfalfa; earns a good income; want Los Angeles;
OTIS JONES Home phone 906 616 Trust Bldg.”
1905 - vvvKNOCKED OUT BY AUTO CRANK
Peculiar accident to man in Santa Ana.
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Failed to Turn Starting Mechanism Far Enough and was Knocked Out of Car and His Nose Broken.
SANTA ANA, July 23 - Otis Jones of East Seventeenth street met with a serious accident, while attempting to start his automobile this morning. Jones sitting in the auto, leaned over to turn the starting crank. He failed to turn it far enough, however, and the handle flew back and struck him alongside the face with such force that it knocked him from the seat senseless into the street. He was picked up and carried to Dr. Burlew's office near by, where it was found that the nose was broken. Later he recovered sufficiently to board a train for Los Angeles, where he is remaining temporarily.
(Los Angeles Times, July 25 , 1905)
1906 - living in Santa Ana, CA - from the Catalogue of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity
1906 - 28 October - Los Angeles Herald, Volume 34, Number 27
He. is also making plans of a two story eight-room frame residence to be built in the "West Adams district for Otis Jones. Both buildings will have all modern features.
1906 - 14 November - Los Angeles Herald, Volume 34, Number 44
Truman O. Jones, 87 years old, an old-time abolitionist, died at his home in this city Sunday. Mr. Jones took an active part in assisting negroes to flnd their way to freedom during the Civil War. He was a man of culture and refinement and many of his poems are highly prized. He came to California several years ago and has lived in retlrement with his son, Otis Jones, at 117 West Twenty-first street.
1907 - Nov 10 - Ad in Los Angeles Hearld:
“FOR SALE - FIVE ACRE RANCH NEAR Burbank; best of soil for all kinds of fruit, vegetables and alfalfa; unsurpassed for strawberries; abundant water deeded with each acre; located close to town and railway station. You can live there and go back and forth to business in town. Party working five acres very near this place made $2000 from it this year. Family can easily make a good living on it. Can use a cottage, well located in Los Angeles, for part or all of it, or would make ease terms.
OTIS JONES Phone A2925 614 L. A. Trust Bldg.”
1910 census - Otis Jones (64) living in Los Angeles, Burbank, with second wife, Zaida (47), both born in Illinois. They have been married 8 years. Otis is reported to be a farmer, and both his parents’s birth place is reported to be New York. Living with them is Martha J Jones (61) a servant. All this information is consistent with this being our Otis Jones.
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A transcription of grave records in the Old Santa Ana Cemetery posted online includes a grave for Otis Jones, 1845-1917. Paired with this grave is one for Zaida Foster Jones, 1856-1927. No other information is given. Otis Jones remarried after the death of Sarah, and this may explain why he isn’t buried in the Edwards plot in Lakewood cemetery in Minneapolis where Sarah is buried. (Note: the birth date for Zaida may be a transcription error in the cemetery record posted online. Census records for 1900 and 1910 indicate she was born about 1865.)
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(Chicago Daily Tribune; Mar 27, 1892)
STRIKES A NEW LEAD
SIGNS OF BOODLE FOUND IN THE SCHOOL BOARD
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ODD CONTRACT LETTING. _____________ Direct Charges are Made Against M. B. Hereley
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MORE EVIDENCE COMING
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True Bills Returned against Bowler and Michaelsen
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COMMERCIAL CLUB TO ASSIST.
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Safe in the promise of immunity, a self-acknowledged bestower of bribes yesterday caused the boodle investigating grand jury to turn its search-lights temporarily away from that long-suspected body, the City Council and in the direction of the supposedly righteous Board of Education. The day was one of sensations. The presence on the stand of John P. Bacon, promoter of the compressed air scheme, was only an incident. The formal presentation of the indictments voted Friday against Ald. Michael Bowler and his colleague from the Fifteenth Ward, A.d. Harold Michaelson, the giving bait of those two worthies, the appearance of Ald. Sal W. Roth as a witness in the spring scale affair, and the offering of evidence on deals of many kinds that smacked of boodle lost in interest when shortly before noon it became known that the tide of investigation had turned from the Council and sen in the direction of that respectable body-the board of Education.
It was understood that evidence of a most damaging character had been given against at least one member of the board, Millard B. Hereley, and it was believed than in indictment might be the immediate result. Otis Jones, formerly of the Ruttan Manufacturing company, had testified, under assurances that he would not come within the law, that he had paid $2,050 to secure contracts from the board. He told a long and detailed story. The money, he said, had been handled by a go-between, G. H. Goodrich, who informed Mr. Jones that $1700 had been paid to M. B. Hereley, one of the School Inspectors, and the the balance of $350 had gone to no one else than Banks Cregier, to secure that young man's influence with his father, who had just been elected Mayor, towards having M.B. Hereley reappointed as school inspector. He was reappointed.
FAINTED IN THE JURY ROOM
After Mr. Jones had told this story to the grand jurors he fell from the witness' chair in a faint, having subjected himself to a severe strain in telling what he knew, besides being a nervous many any how. The jurors resuscitated him, an pressed him for details, and then made him promise to reappear before them Monday with any record he could find to substantiate his statement. Mr. Jones' story was simply in corroboration fo the one told by a reporter, who preceded him on the witness stand. Then H.G. Goodrich, the man said to have been the go-between, was examined. He vigorously denied everything, save that he had been in the employ of Mr. JOnes and that he stood by his denial was all that saved the day to Mr. Hereley, who may be called upon to testify himself tomorrow. Goodrich will certainly be recalled. He has been instructed to school his memory in the meantime.
The story that Otis Jones told was well received by the inquisitors. They were not so well impressed with that of Goodrich. Briefly Mr. Jones said that in 1888 he gave Goodrich $400 to give to Hereley in order to influence the latter in securing contracts for the Ruttan company. The contracts were secured. The statute of limitation is only three years, and that transaction has lost its sting. But in 1889, after Dewitt C. Cregier had been elected Mayor, Mr. Jones said he gave Goodrich $350 to be given Banks Cregier, who was to influence his father to reappoint Hereley. Then $300 went in the same way to secure Hereley a place on either the Committee on Buildings and Ground or Janitors and Supplies in the board. Goodrich told Jones, so the latter says, that he paid the $300 to Hereley, who failed to get on either committee. The next demand was for $1000, under pressure, to enable Hereley to make an opening in one of these committees. The money was given to Goodrich on the understanding, Mr. Jones said, that it was to be returned unless contracts were secured. Mr. Jones said Goodrich told him he had given the money to Hereley. The contracts failed to come, but Mr. Jones never recaptured his $1000.
THE STOR THE RECORDS TELL
The records of the Board of Education, in a way, corroborate Mr. Jones' story. They show that in 1889 Mr. Hereley failed to get on an better committee than that of Sites and School Districts, which has nothing to do in the way of contracts. In that year Mr. Jones said he secured no contracts. In 1888, when Mr. Jones said he had given Goodrich $400 to be given to Mr. Hereley, he did secure contracts. Mr. Hereley was then on the Janitors and Supplies committee, which let many contracts. The name of Mr. Hereley was not the only one mentioned in the grand jury room in connection with scandals in the Board of Education. But the only evidence heard is as given above.
George Hunter, a constructing engineer of No. 256 Sheffield avenue, awaited a call into the grand jury room yesterday. Mr. Hunter refused to tell what he was supposed to know, but it was understood that the jury was anxious to get certain letters which incriminated an officer of the Board of Education, and which had been written by that officer and obtained by Hunter in a peculiar way. Hunter had told several responsible parties of the existence of these letters, but late yesterday he sought the State's -Attorney and asked to be excused from going before the grand jury, alleging that his stories about the letters had been told to get up a scare. But he was not excused, and every effort will be made tomorrow to secure these letters, or at least get an inkling of their contents. Another witness, whose name is on the list, it is dais, will be forced to repeat a story he told of having "chipped in" a sum of money to a fund to be used in securing a position. This witness is said to be a contractor, whose chief interests lie in the school-supply business.
The Ruttan Manufacturing company, with which Otis Jones and G. H. Goodrich were connected in 1889, is now doing business at No. 324 Dearborn street. Sterling L. Bailey is its President. He was notified yesterday to appear before the grand jury Monday. He will positively testify, it is said, that he was "approached" by a school inspector who suggested that a certain amount of money would prove of great service in the way of securing certain business. Br. Bailey said he was not doing business in that way. It is believed Mr. Jones' experience had been related to Mr. Bailey. Frederick Bailey, who will also be a witness, certainly heard of Mr. Jones' experience, for he was present when the latter related it on an occasion of which the grand jury has full knowledge.
ENCOURAGING EVIDENCE GLEANED
Outside of the special feature of the day - the development of a boodle lead in connection with school affairs - other encouraging evidence was gleaned. Of course John P. Bacon refused to tell whether or not any money had been spent for the passaged of the famous compressed air ordinance, but as the jurors hardly expected him to divulge any state secrets on the occasion of a first visit they were not disappointed. They like Bacon, however, and will take another course by requesting his attendance again before the end of the session.
There was some progress made on several subjects under investigation, and especially the spring scales ordinance. Ald Roth told the jurors about his connection with that ordinance and its repeal. He denied that any $500 bills had been used, affirming that if such had been the case, another $500 would have been deposited with the $1750 of boodle money he had already given up to the prosecution. George Zimmer, the butcher, who fought for spring scales under the instructions of the New York spring scales manufacturers, opened his heard to the jury, and, it is said, told som pretty straight facts about boodle methods. Indeed, his evidence is said to be damaging, but in what direction no one, not even Mr. Zimmer, could be induced to tell. Ald. McCarthy and Hepburn, who were with Ald. Roth on the sub-committee which reported favorably on spring scales, will be called upon to give evidence.
As a whole the day was full of results and the members of the grand jury were enthusiastic that they had progressed so well in the big investigation.
As adjournment was taken Foreman Lieb was asked how he liked the day's developments. "Mightily!" was his response
(note: the Bailey’s may have been relatives of Seavey M. Bailey, husband of the daughter of E.J. Edwards) ________________
It seems Otis Jones was heavily involved in real estate in the 1890’s in Chicago and the Los Angeles area as many ads for properties in both cities in the Chicago Daily Tribune and the Los Angeles Tribune appear in newpaper archives with his name. During this time he was also involved with the Hicks Stock Car company and the Chemical Bank of Chicago, both of which had their own scandals.
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Director of the Park Club in Chicago, at Fifty seventh street and Rosalie Court.
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Chemical National Bank. Successor to the Chemical Trust and Savings bank, founded in May, 1880. Occupies its own building, 85 Dearborn st. Capital, $1,000,000. ....... Directors:.....Otis Jones (Director, Macon Dublin & Savannah Ry. Co.);.....E. J. Edwards (President, Hicks Stock Car Co.);....
It will be seen that the directors are representative business men. The Chemical National, though one of the most recently organised, ranks among the most prominent of the city.
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1906 member of the Society of American Wars, living at 45 Lake St in Chicago. Either Otis was maintaining residences in both Chicago and California, or the Society of American Wars had old information for this publication.
1906 Catalogue of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity lists Otis Jones of Santa Ana, Calif. He must have been maintaining residences in both Chicago and California at this time.
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Birth: 1845 Death: Jan. 22, 1917 Los Angeles Los Angeles County California, USA
Otis was the son of Truman Otis Jones and Huldah Jane Wilson. He first married Sarah Edwards on 1 Dec 1870. On 19 May 1903 he married Zaida Foster Childs. After the wedding they moved to Chicago, IL. By the time of the 1910 census they were living in Burbank, Los Angeles, CA. Otis died in 1917 in Los Angeles County. Family links: Spouse: Zaida Foster Jones (1856 - 1927) Burial: Santa Ana Cemetery Santa Ana Orange County California, USA Edit Virtual Cemetery info [?] Created by: Jane from MI Record added: Oct 30, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 99887979
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