Edward Wadsworth Jones (1840–1934) was an officer in the American Civil War, a miner in Idaho and Utah and an entrepreneur in Los Angeles, California.
[1] He died December 8, 1934, in the family home at 1540 South Wilton Place[3] in the Arlington Heights district, leaving a son, Edward Conde Jones of Paris, France, and two daughters, Mrs. J. Forsyth of Los Angeles and Mrs. Louise J. Dobbins of Monterey, California.
[2] At the outbreak of the Civil War Jones helped enlist a number of men who formed a military company and elected him captain.
His unit was with the Army of the Potomac and in the Shenandoah Valley; at Cedar Creek he was in command of his regiment and was mentioned by General Philip Sheridan in his memoirs.
[8]Jones represented the 3rd Ward on the Los Angeles Common Council beginning December 7, 1885, and was reelected for another one-year term in 1886.