This is in very rough draft, the introductory matter to chapter three, Separate Identity, vol. 3. This post will come down within the week. Comments are welcome. Fact checking is even more welcome.
3 Albert Delmont Jones and
William Conley
Early Years
Albert Royal Delmont Jones played a
significant though until now unexplored role
in Watch Tower history. He was the son of Albert Delmont Jones,
Sr. (born c. 1835) and Martha McCleary. His father, “a well-known riverboat
engineer,” most often used his middle name in place of his first. Albert Senior
was a Civil War veteran, serving as an engineer on one of
the Mississippi gunboats.[1] After
the war he returned to riverboat service, serving on the famous Boaz and on a
lesser-known boat. He was a staunch Republican until near his death when doubts
over tariff policy led him to question party loyalty: “I’ve been a Republican,
voting that ticket, thinking it was right, and thinking by doing so it was
keeping up wages for the workingman, but I … have begun to think that we are
only helping the capitalists and not benefiting the public and ourselves.”[2]
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4 comments:
Thank you for all the research
Much appreciated
Please keep this up for a few more days. I want to look through it in more detail and hopefully make a substantive comment.
In the first line of the obituary quote, should the word "ears" be "years" or was that typo part of the original obituary?
It's a typo.
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