William Elsey Connelley

“ Jones is one of the business men of Topeka who realizes that civic prosperity assists greatly in business progress, and therefore is always willing to help his community in beneficial enterprises. In business circles he bears the reputation of being an honorable and straightforward business man, while in the printing trade he is recognized as a master of the craft. ”

“ Alexander G. Jones began business with Gabriel Jones, who later became his father-in-law, at the age of fourteen years, and continued as a merchant until 1912, in which year his wife died and he retired somewhat from active affairs, now making his home with his son, Seward A. In spite of the fact that he is nearly seventy-two years of age, he is as active, both in mind and body, as most men twenty years his junior, and still acts as a secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, in the work of which he has always taken a helpful part. ”