Dudley Emerson Jones, born 1829, was a California gold rush participant, going to California by ship. He went by ship around Cape Horn the first time and tried his hand at gold mining, but had more success in the mercantile business. He participated in planning and building what may have been the first suspension bridge in California. He returned home for a visit, this time traveling by steamer and overland across Nicaragua. Although he prospered in California, his family was in the east and so he eventually returned to New York, married Caroline Peck (1830- 1903) in 1855 and moved to Keokuk, Iowa, where he went into the hardware business in partnership as Cody, Jones and Peck. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in the Union Army, becoming First Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the Third Iowa Cavalry, which occupied Little Rock. Impressed by business opportunities there, upon his discharge, Jones first established the firm of Jones, McDowell & Co., and later the Dudley E. Jones Company. He participated in the Brooks-Baxter War, and (probably because of his support for Governor Baxter) was appointed a Trustee of the University of Arkansas (then the Arkansas Industrial University) in 1874. He and Caroline Peck Jones had five children, two of whom survived to adulthood: Kate P. Jones (b. 1856), who married Philip H. Bernays, and Arthur C. Jones (b. 1860), who married Georgia Jackson and had three children, among them Arthur J. Jones. Dudley Emerson Jones died in 1913.