A. D. Jones, yet again

While in St. Louis Jones was employed by Arthur R. Jones & Co. I suspect a family relationship. Jones & Co. were seen as disreputable in St. Louis. Can we prove a family relationship? Here is what I know about A. R. Jones:

Arthur Russell Jones was the son of Bushrod W. and Lydia (Stickney) Jones. He was born in Vinton, Iowa, Jan. S, 1865. He had a high school education, advanced education in those years. In 1889 he married Edith Forrester.

In 1883 Arthur moved to Chicago finding employment with the Chicago and North Western Railway as a traveling live-stock agent. In 1889 he became assistant general manager of Street’s Western Stable Car Line; then found employment with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway as general freight agent. He returned to Chicago in 1896, establishing Arthur R. Jones & Co. dealing in “commercial paper,” short-term unsecured promissory notes, until 1897, in stock and bond brokerage from 1897 to 1902, in commercial paper again, 1902-1905. In 1905 he organized the Mercantile Credit Co.,