Willard N. Jones
Willard N. Jones (1869–?) was a civil engineer and timber dealer in the U.S. state of Oregon.[1] He served as a Republican in the Oregon Legislative Assembly in 1903,[2] and was convicted of fraud in 1906.[3]
Jones was born in Pennsylvania in 1869 and educated at Alfred University. He moved west in 1887 and became a civil engineer, spending time in Minnesota, Montana, and British Columbia. He moved to Portland in 1891, where he worked as a timber salesman.[4] He partnered with Stephen A. Douglas Puter, who was later known as the "Oregon land fraud king."[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Stephen Arnold Douglas Puter; Horace Stevens, Looters of the Public Domain, OCLC 16690062, Wikidata Q61976648 Looters of the Public Domain on Wikisource
- ^ "HP Records Manager WebDrawer - 1903 Session Legislators and Staff Guide State Government". Records.sos.state.or.us. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
- ^ "PRISON FOR WILLARD N. JONES: Ex-Legislator Sentenced for Conspiracy to Defraud Government". The New York Times. August 5, 1906.
- ^ "Oregon Teachers' Monthly". September 26, 1902 – via Google Books.
- ^ Jerry O'Callaghan, The Disposition of the Public Domain in Oregon, doctoral dissertation (Stanford University), 1951.
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