Jones, R. M., M.D.

Born in Missouri in 1882, Dr. R. M. Jones trained as a graduate nurse at Brooklyn Hospital before serving four years as chief clerk in the bridge and building department of the Santa Fe Railway. He pursued his medical education at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and completed his internship at Lane Hospital in San Francisco before establishing his medical practice in Fresno.

A veteran of military service, Dr. Jones served in the Spanish-American War in the Philippines, as a surgeon in the California State Militia during the Mexican border conflict, and as a Captain stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, during World War I. Alongside his medical practice and ownership of a Fresno vineyard, he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, various medical associations, the Spanish-American War Veterans, and numerous fraternal orders including the Masons, Odd Fellows, and Knights of Pythias.