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History of the Great Lakes
Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II
Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

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              GEORGE WATSON JONES. The credit of establishing the first
           exclusively marine newspaper on the Great Lakes is accorded
           to the gentleman whose name introduces this article, it being
           the Detroit Marine News, which began publication in 1880, and he
           continued its editor for some time. He was born in Lorain, Ohio,
           in 1840, a son of GEORGE WASHINGTON JONES, a well known and
           prominent shipbuilder.
              During his childhood our subject was taken by his parents to
           Cleveland, and throughout life he has been greatly interested
           in lake marine. For a time he temporarily filled the place of
           marine editor on the Detroit Free Press, and this led to his
           establishing a distinctively marine paper. He was deeply
           interested in the commercial questions relating to the water
           ways connecting the east and the west, and was especially
           devoted to the opposition of the free ship bill, feeling that
           American ships should be built of American material by
           Americans. Ill health prevented MR. JONES from continuing the
           publication of the Marine News, but the idea thus inaugurated
           was taken up by others, there now being a number of distinct-
           ively marine publications along the lakes.

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