Obituary Published: January 25, 1919 in NY TIMES
EX-MEMBER OF WAR TRADE BOARD TO BE BURIED IN WILMINGTON, WHERE HE OWNED MAGNIFICENT ESTATE.
Pembroke Jones, financier, who had been actively identified with railway and shipping interests in the South and prominent socially in New York and Newport, and owner in his home city, Wilmington, N.C., of a country estate, Airlee-on-the-Sound, one of the most magnificent in the South, died yesterday at the Post-Graduate Hospital, following an operaton. The funeral will be held at 1 o'clock this afternoon at his town residence, 5 East Sixty-first Street, and his body will be taken to Wilmington, where internment will be made in Oakdale Cemetery.
Mr. Jones was born in Wilmington, N.C., Dec 15, 1858, the son of Captain John Pembroke Jones and Jane London Jones. He spend a portion of each year on his estate eight mils from Wilmington. He encouraged the development of Wilmington as a seaport and shipping centre. For many years he was engaged in the rice milling industry in Wilmington and New Orleans. Since coming to New York he had been interested principally in railway and other securities.
Lat Winter and Spring, Mr. Jones was a member of the War Trade Board at Washington and since then had been Vice Presiden of the Carolina Ship Building Corporation, which is constructing for the government at Wilmington, N. C., a number of steel ships.
For many years Mr. Jones had observed the custom of giving a Christmas tree at his country him, to which were invited scores of children of the first families of Wilmington, and each child came away laden with costly presents.
One June 19, 1916, Mr. Jones placed his town house at 5 East Sixty-first Street at the disposal of the Italian War Mission, and the invitation was accepted.
EX-MEMBER OF WAR TRADE BOARD TO BE BURIED IN WILMINGTON, WHERE HE OWNED MAGNIFICENT ESTATE.
Pembroke Jones, financier, who had been actively identified with railway and shipping interests in the South and prominent socially in New York and Newport, and owner in his home city, Wilmington, N.C., of a country estate, Airlee-on-the-Sound, one of the most magnificent in the South, died yesterday at the Post-Graduate Hospital, following an operaton. The funeral will be held at 1 o'clock this afternoon at his town residence, 5 East Sixty-first Street, and his body will be taken to Wilmington, where internment will be made in Oakdale Cemetery.
Mr. Jones was born in Wilmington, N.C., Dec 15, 1858, the son of Captain John Pembroke Jones and Jane London Jones. He spend a portion of each year on his estate eight mils from Wilmington. He encouraged the development of Wilmington as a seaport and shipping centre. For many years he was engaged in the rice milling industry in Wilmington and New Orleans. Since coming to New York he had been interested principally in railway and other securities.
Lat Winter and Spring, Mr. Jones was a member of the War Trade Board at Washington and since then had been Vice Presiden of the Carolina Ship Building Corporation, which is constructing for the government at Wilmington, N. C., a number of steel ships.
For many years Mr. Jones had observed the custom of giving a Christmas tree at his country him, to which were invited scores of children of the first families of Wilmington, and each child came away laden with costly presents.
One June 19, 1916, Mr. Jones placed his town house at 5 East Sixty-first Street at the disposal of the Italian War Mission, and the invitation was accepted.
Obituary Published: January 25, 1919 in NY TIMES
EX-MEMBER OF WAR TRADE BOARD TO BE BURIED IN WILMINGTON, WHERE HE OWNED MAGNIFICENT ESTATE.
Pembroke Jones, financier, who had been actively identified with railway and shipping interests in the South and prominent socially in New York and Newport, and owner in his home city, Wilmington, N.C., of a country estate, Airlee-on-the-Sound, one of the most magnificent in the South, died yesterday at the Post-Graduate Hospital, following an operaton. The funeral will be held at 1 o'clock this afternoon at his town residence, 5 East Sixty-first Street, and his body will be taken to Wilmington, where internment will be made in Oakdale Cemetery.
Mr. Jones was born in Wilmington, N.C., Dec 15, 1858, the son of Captain John Pembroke Jones and Jane London Jones. He spend a portion of each year on his estate eight mils from Wilmington. He encouraged the development of Wilmington as a seaport and shipping centre. For many years he was engaged in the rice milling industry in Wilmington and New Orleans. Since coming to New York he had been interested principally in railway and other securities.
Lat Winter and Spring, Mr. Jones was a member of the War Trade Board at Washington and since then had been Vice Presiden of the Carolina Ship Building Corporation, which is constructing for the government at Wilmington, N. C., a number of steel ships.
For many years Mr. Jones had observed the custom of giving a Christmas tree at his country him, to which were invited scores of children of the first families of Wilmington, and each child came away laden with costly presents.
One June 19, 1916, Mr. Jones placed his town house at 5 East Sixty-first Street at the disposal of the Italian War Mission, and the invitation was accepted.
EX-MEMBER OF WAR TRADE BOARD TO BE BURIED IN WILMINGTON, WHERE HE OWNED MAGNIFICENT ESTATE.
Pembroke Jones, financier, who had been actively identified with railway and shipping interests in the South and prominent socially in New York and Newport, and owner in his home city, Wilmington, N.C., of a country estate, Airlee-on-the-Sound, one of the most magnificent in the South, died yesterday at the Post-Graduate Hospital, following an operaton. The funeral will be held at 1 o'clock this afternoon at his town residence, 5 East Sixty-first Street, and his body will be taken to Wilmington, where internment will be made in Oakdale Cemetery.
Mr. Jones was born in Wilmington, N.C., Dec 15, 1858, the son of Captain John Pembroke Jones and Jane London Jones. He spend a portion of each year on his estate eight mils from Wilmington. He encouraged the development of Wilmington as a seaport and shipping centre. For many years he was engaged in the rice milling industry in Wilmington and New Orleans. Since coming to New York he had been interested principally in railway and other securities.
Lat Winter and Spring, Mr. Jones was a member of the War Trade Board at Washington and since then had been Vice Presiden of the Carolina Ship Building Corporation, which is constructing for the government at Wilmington, N. C., a number of steel ships.
For many years Mr. Jones had observed the custom of giving a Christmas tree at his country him, to which were invited scores of children of the first families of Wilmington, and each child came away laden with costly presents.
One June 19, 1916, Mr. Jones placed his town house at 5 East Sixty-first Street at the disposal of the Italian War Mission, and the invitation was accepted.
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