Draft:Edwin Smith Jones

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Edwin Smith Jones (June 3, 1828 - January 26, 1890) was a lawyer, judge, local politician, bank president, landholder, and philanthropist in the United States. He served during the Civil War. He helped establish a kindergarten in Atlanta for African American children. He helped establish a mountain school for girls. North Carolina? He was born in Connecticut. His mother died. He married three times and had nine children. One of his soms, David Percy Jones, became Mayor of Minneapolis.

He was on the board of trustees of various educational institutions. He was a peader in the Congregational Church.