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Note: Buried at Mtn. View Cem. Pasadena. Attended Oberlin College 1845-47, 1850-52. Lifelong Congregational Preacher; ordained in 1855 and went to Kansas Territory for American Home Missionary Assn, 1855. Founded and 1st pastor of Wabaunsee Cong. Church- the"Beecher Bible and Rifle Church" 1856. Source:L. U. Jones, Whittier CA Source: Peter Jones Ancestry; paper written by Harvey for his uncle Peter in 1857 "Rev. Harvey Jones, of Wabaunsee, was born near Pittsburg, PA in June1921. He received his early education in the academy at Bakerstown, Pa. Subsequently he attended Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio; was a student at Oberlin College, and graduated from the theological course in 1852. The following year he spent in Illinois, preaching in Lombard, then known as Babcock's Grove. In the spring of 1855, he removed to Kansas Territory, locating near his present home. During the "border troubles" he was active in efforts to secure the State for freedom. Mr. Jones is one of the oldest settlers of Wabaunsee County, there being but few families when he came, in June, 1855. He engaged at once in pioneer work, preaching as opportunity offered in tent, sod house, log cabin or in groves, "God's first temples," in Wabaunsee, Greendale and Ashland, until the organization of the "First Church of Christ" in Wabaunsee in 1857, of which he was the first pastor. In 1860, Mr. Jones returned to Ohio, and preached in Monroe, Ashtabula County, four years, till near the close of the war. He was one of the 100,000 volunteers, "Squirrel Hunters," who at the call of the Governor hastened to the defense of Cincinnati when threatened by Kirby Smith, of the Rebel army. On his return to Kansas, in 1864, he became pastor of the Congregational Church in Geneva, Allen County. While he was there he was several times a volunteer for the defense of various points, twice to Humboldt and once to Fort Scott, in the famous Price raid. In the fall of 1866 he was appointed Superintendent of Home Missions for the State. From 1870 to 1872 he preached at Valley Falls, when he returned to his first home at Wabaunsee, since which time he has been engaged in home mission work in new and needy fields in various parts of the State. Soon after commencing his work in the ministry he was married to Miss H. N. Keyes, of Windsor, Morgan Co., Ohio. They have four children living -- Carrie, born December 10, 1857, at Wabaunsee; Henry Martyn, born December 19, 1859, at Wabaunsee; Horace Bushnell, born June 5, 1861, in Monroe, Ohio; Emma, born November 30, 1863, in Monroe, Ohio. Recently Mr. Jones has relinquished preaching in part and is devoting his attention to horticulture and the interests of his farm. " From "History of the State of Kansas" by William G. Cutler at www.ku.edu/carrie/kancoll/books/cutler/wabaunsee-co-p7.html
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