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2 unusual facts about Edward Wadsworth Jones


Edward Wadsworth Jones

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.

As an entrepreneur, Jones was in 1886 the president of a syndicate formed to build a "first-class hotel in the style of the Arlington Hotel at Santa Barbara" on Sixth Street between Hill and Broadway, the site of Saint Vincent's College, which was planning a move to the northwest corner of Grand and Washington.



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