OKGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of OKGenWeb State Coordinator. Presentation here does not extend any permissions to the public. This material can not be included in any compilation, publication, collection, or other reproduction for profit without permission. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. ===================================================================== CALVIN JONES Vol. 5, p. 1835 The State of Tennessee has contributed a considerable amount of brain and muscle necessary to the building of the new State of Oklahoma. In every county and in nearly every community it is represented. It has sent some of the brightest lawyers and most skilled physicians. The elements of Tennessee progress are contained in the fundamental elements of social and religious life wherever white men have formed communities here. It has been said that many of them crossed the Arkansas line seeking office, and this humorous reference was based on the fact that in many counties in earlier years Tennesseeans were in the majority in office-holding circles. Two generations ago Tennessee sent some of its leading ministers here as missionaries, and in recent years many of the state's leading educators have come from the colleges of Tennessee. It has furnished more ministers to Oklahoma Methodism than any other state, birth and parentage considered. Many of the ablest and most prominent clubwomen in the recent years in Oklahoma came from Tennessee. A Tennesseean at Hugo is Calvin JONES, one of the city's brightest and most successful young lawyers. He was born at Summerville, Fayette County, in 1883, a son of J. M. and Anna (MOODY) Jones. His father, a native of Fayette County, has spent most of his life on the farm, and served through the Civil war as a soldier in the Cavalry Brigade of General Forrest. The paternal grandfather was also named Calvin. He was a native of North Carolina and gained distinction in two fields. As an educator he was once professor in the University of Alabama, and later as a lawyer he became the first chancellor in the district in which he lived in West Tennessee. After completing his public and high school education, Calvin Jones entered the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, and later the law department of the Cumberland University, from which he received his degree LL. B. in 1903. Beginning practice at Summerville, he remained there until 1906, when he located at Grant, a small town near Hugo, and from there moved to Hugo. For two years Mr. Jones was deputy county attorney under Robert K. WAARREN. In June 1915, he became junior member of the firm of MCDONALD & Jones. He is a democrat, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Woodmen of the World and also of the County and State Bar associations. Typed for OKGenWeb by Jeanne M. Misleh, 20 July, 1999. SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The American Historical Society, 1916).