{{short description|Welsh-American businessman (1848-1923)}} {{Infobox person | name = David Benton Jones | birth_date = c. 1848 | birth_place = Pembrokeshire, Wales | death_date = August 23, {{death year and age|1923|1848}} | death_place = | occupation = Businessman | alma_mater = Princeton University | spouse = Nora Bayley Jones | children = 3 }}

'''David Benton Jones''' (c. 1848 – August 23, 1923) was president and chairman of the board of directors of the Mineral Point Zinc Company and considered a founder of the Zinc industry in America. When ill, he chartered a special train whose speed rivaled the time of the ''Scott Special''.

== Biography == "He founded the Mineral Point [Zinc] Company in Wisconsin, which owns the whole town in Wisconsin, about thirty years ago and merged it with the New Jersey Zinc Company in a nationwide organization in 1897."<ref>{{Cite news | title = David Benton Jones Dead...}}</ref>

David Benton Jones had a winter home near Santa Barbara, California, at "Pepper Hill" in Montecito, California.<ref>Wilson 2002: 13</ref> He had a townhouse at 1435 Astor Street in Chicago, Illinois, and a summer house at Lake Forest, Illinois. When he was ill, he chartered a train between Los Angeles, Chicago, and Lake Forest which was a few minutes faster than the Scott Special. David B. Jones also had a house in Florida.<ref>David B. Jones' homes are mentioned in {{cite news | title = Zinc Industry Founder Dead...}}</ref>

"Mr. Jones was born in Pembrokeshire, South Wales, in 1848. He came to this country as a boy and received his education here, graduating from Princeton University in 1874. He was a close friend of ex-President Wilson."<ref>{{cite news | title = David Benton Jones Dead. Prominent Capitalist Was Founder of Zinc Industry in America}}</ref>

David B. Jones had three daughters: Gwethalyn Jones, Catherine (Mrs. Edward H. Bennett) Jones, and Winifred Jones<ref>{{cite journal | journal = Social Register |date=April 1913 | page = 485}}</ref> and two sons: Owen B. and Herbert Jones.<ref>{{Cite news | title = David B. Jones, Zinc Capitalist, Passes Away}}. "Catherine" is mentioned in {{citation | journal = Social Register |date=Summer 1919}}</ref>

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== Additional sources == {{Cite news| title = David B. Jones, Zinc Capitalist, Passes Away | newspaper = Chicago Daily Tribune | date = August 23, 1923 | page = 3 | accessdate = <!-----2 January 2009-----> }}

{{cite news | title = David Benton Jones Dead. Prominent Capitalist Was Founder of Zinc Industry in America | newspaper = The New York Times | date = August 24, 1923 | page = 11 | accessdate = <!-----January 2, 2009-----> }}

{{cite journal | date = April 1913 | journal = Social Register | title = Social register, summer | pages = 485 | publisher = Social Register Association | accessdate = 8 April 2010 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=bJJIAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA485}}

{{cite journal | journal = Social Register |date=Summer 1919 | volume = XXXIII | issue = 75 | title = Social register: Contains the summer address where it differs from the winter address of the residents of New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Cleveland ... [etc.]. summer ... | pages = 436 | publisher = Social Register Association | location = Bowling Green, [KY?] | accessdate = 7 September 2009 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9RQJAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA436}}

{{cite book |last1= Wilson |first1= Richard Guy |last2= Thorne |first2 = Martha (ed.) |title= David Adler, architect: the elements of style |year= 2002 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven, Conn |isbn= 978-0-300-09702-3 |pages= 13–33 |chapter= The Styles of David Adler |ref= Wilson2002}}

{{Cite news | title = Zinc Industry Founder Dead. D. B. Jones Passes Away at Lake Forest. Magnate Becomes Ill Here Last May. Was Rushed East on Train That Cost $11,000 | newspaper = The Los Angeles Times | date = August 24, 1923 | page = 16 | accessdate = <!-----August 28, 2009----->}}

== See also == {{Cite book | last = Fiedler | first = George | title = Mineral Point: A History | place = Mineral Point, Wisconsin | publisher = Memorial Pendarvis Endowment Trust Fund | year = 1997 }} {{Authority control}}

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