Shipley Jones

Shipley Jones (1850 – August 9, 1936) was an American banker, society leader and clubman who was prominent in New York during the Gilded Age. Early life Jones was born in 1850. He was the only surviving son of four children born to Samuel Tonkin Jones and his second wife, Martha Mary (née Thomas) Jones. His siblings included Sarah Margaret Jones, who married Henry Beadel; Samuel T. Jones Jr., who died young; and Elizabeth Ludlow Jones, who married John D. Van Buren Jr. His elder half sister, Frances Mary Jones, was first married to Richard Montgomery Pell (of the Livingston family) and secondly to banker Louis T. Hoyt (son of Jesse Hoyt of Swartwout–Hoyt scandal infamy). His father and uncle, Ludlow Thomas, were with the firm of S. T. Jones & Co. His uncle, Ludlow Thomas, served as vice president of the Stock Exchange Building Association, and many of his prominent ancestors came to New York from Philadelphia. His maternal grandparents were Philip Thomas and Frances Mary (née Ludlow) Thomas. His paternal grandparents were Isaac Cooper Jones and Hannah (née Firth) Jones (a descendant of Samuel Carpenter, the Deputy Governor of colonial Pennsylvania, and Samuel Preston, mayor of Philadelphia). Jones graduated from Columbia College in 1869 with a B.A. degree. He also received a M.A. degree from Columbia in 1872.