From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 345.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.

JOHN J. JONES

One of the most prominent financiers of Wheeling is Mr. John J. 
Jones, cashier of the Exchange bank.  Mr. Jones is a native of 
Belmont county, Ohio, and came to Wheeling in 1863, three years later 
he entered the First National bank, now the Bank of the Ohio Valley.  
He continued with this institution until 1871, when be became 
connected with the Exchange bank as its cashier, a position he has 
since held.  Aside from the banking business Mr. Jones is prominently 
identified with several other extensive manufacturing concerns of 
Wheeling and vicinity, being a large stockholder in the same.  In his 
relations to the community through this the largest banking house in 
the state, Mr. Jones has always held the reputation of being a 
financier of great ability and of strict integrity.  Few men can 
hope, at his age, to attain to such a desirable position, and to such 
a lofty place in the esteem of the citizens of as large a city as 
Wheeling.  Nothing but ability and probity could have placed him 
where he is. 


(Linda Fluharty)