WI BIO - Dane Co - JONES, Peter J.
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol II, pp 485-486

Rev. Peter J. JONES, of Mazomanie, Dane County, WI, was born in Ozaukee 
County, WI, 27 Jan 1861, a son of Peter and Margaret (SUMACHER) JONES, the 
former a native of Liege, Belgium, and the latter of Luxemburg, Belgium. The 
father was well educated, for the past thirty years has been engaged in 
teaching, and now resides at Holy Cross, Ozaukee County, WI.

Peter J. JONES, the second of six children, three of each sex, first attended 
school at Mt. Calvary, Fond du Lac County, WI, where [p 486] he spent five 
years. He then spent three years in the medical department of the University 
of Montreal, Canada, then entered the St. Francis Ecclesiastical College, 
graduating there in Jun 1885, and was then given a charge at Eagle, Waukesha 
County, WI. One and a half years afterward Peter J. JONES came to Mazomanie, 
Dane County, WI, where he has since remained. He found only a feeble, old 
frame church, and after laboring assiduously, a noble structure of worship 
was begun in 1890. This was completed in 1891, at a cost of $18,000, and is 
a monument to the energy and perseverance of our subject. The congregation 
now numbers ninety-two families, principally Irish. 

Rev. JONES also organized a school in this city [Mazomanie], which is now 
under the charge of the Dominican Sisters. Three teachers are employed in 
this school, besides a professor of music, and our subject, who teaches 
German and constitutional law. In addition to his Mazomanie church, he also 
has a charge at Blue Mounds [Dane County, WI], consisting of seventy families, 
and one at Mill Creek, Iowa County, WI, of forty-five families. Rev. Peter 
J. JONES is a hard working man, and has done much for his cause and people.

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