ORLANDO
A. JONES, physician and surgeon, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, August
19, 1868, and is a son of David A. and Cecelia (Armstrong) Jones,
natives of Wales. The parents immigrated to Johnstown, Penn., about
thirty-six years ago, and a few years afterward removed to Ohio, thence
to the vicinity of Mercer, Penn., in 1868. They resided in this county
several years, and then removed to Coalburg, Ohio, where the mother
died in December, 1879, and where the father is still living. Dr. Jones
grew up under the parental roof, and began reading medicine in 1880. He
attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore,
Md., and was graduated in March, 1886. He soon afterward located in
Sharon, where he has built up a good practice. He is now in his second
term as county physician of Sharon. Dr. Jones was married March 6,
1887, to Miss Matilda J. Herbert, of Coalburg, Ohio. The Doctor is a
member of the Mercer County Medical Society, the I. O. R. M., is a
Republican, and with his wife belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
History of Mercer County, 1888, page 732
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