Dudley Emerson Jones Papers
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Scope and Content Note
Papers of Dudley Emerson Jones and some of his descendants. The collection includes many handwritten or typed accounts of incidents in Dudley E. Jones's life, particularly the gold rush and the Civil War. Included also are letters and photographs.
Dates
- 1849-1976
Creator
- Jones, Dudley Emerson, 1829-1913 (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Access Information
Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.
Use Information
RESTRICTIONS APPLY. Some of the materials are extremely fragile and may not be used without special permission. Most of this material has been photocopied for research use.
No Interlibrary Loan.
Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Biographical Note
Dudley Emerson Jones, born 1829, was a California gold rush participant, going to California by ship. He went by ship around Cape Horn the first time and tried his hand at gold mining, but had more success in the mercantile business. He participated in planning and building what may have been the first suspension bridge in California. He returned home for a visit, this time traveling by steamer and overland across Nicaragua. Although he prospered in California, his family was in the east and so he eventually returned to New York, married Caroline Peck (1830- 1903) in 1855 and moved to Keokuk, Iowa, where he went into the hardware business in partnership as Cody, Jones and Peck. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in the Union Army, becoming First Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the Third Iowa Cavalry, which occupied Little Rock. Impressed by business opportunities there, upon his discharge, Jones first established the firm of Jones, McDowell & Co., and later the Dudley E. Jones Company. He participated in the Brooks-Baxter War, and (probably because of his support for Governor Baxter) was appointed a Trustee of the University of Arkansas (then the Arkansas Industrial University) in 1874. He and Caroline Peck Jones had five children, two of whom survived to adulthood: Kate P. Jones (b. 1856), who married Philip H. Bernays, and Arthur C. Jones (b. 1860), who married Georgia Jackson and had three children, among them Arthur J. Jones. Dudley Emerson Jones died in 1913.
Extent
2 Linear Feet (5 boxes)
Arrangement of the Papers
Materials are arranged in four series.
- Correspondence, 1849-1920
- Writings by Dudley E. Jones, [1849]-1898, n.d.
- Other papers, 1851-1976
- Photographs, 1863-1929
Acquisition Information
Papers of Dudley Emerson Jones and some of his descendants were donated to Special Collections by Carolyn Deller of Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 7, 1995.
Processing Information
Processed by Nan Lawler, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 1995.
- Title
- Dudley Emerson Jones Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Nan Lawler
- Date
- October 1995
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Department Repository
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444
specoll@uark.edu