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Henry Jones (entrepreneur)

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mills in Launceston by Kelsall and Kemp of Rochdale, England. Other interests included an orchard on the east coast of Tasmania worked largely by way of a co-operative system. He had become Tasmania's leading businessman, and continuing to work very hard his health became affected in the last two
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retired from the business, Jones was able to buy a controlling interest in it, and reconstruct it under the name of H. Jones and Company. The business grew, and in 1898, the works were almost entirely refitted with new machinery and the range of canned goods was increased.
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Jones succeeded in securing steamers to carry Tasmanian fruit to the English market, and though his enterprise suffered occasional losses, he never ceased his efforts to vitalise his state's trade. He was interested in early attempts to form a
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Jones died suddenly at Melbourne on 29 October 1926. He was survived by his wife Alice Glover - they had married in 1883 - as well as their three sons and nine daughters.
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Jones began to extend his interest to the timber trade, hop industry, and the export of Tasmanian fruit in addition to his own preserves. Jones created the brand name
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Jones visited England in 1911 with his family, and relocated to America in 1914. Some five years later, he established a factory in
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factory when he was 12 years old, and began with sticking labels on tins.
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industry, and was largely responsible for the erecting of
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Tasmanian
Caricature by David Low
Hobart
jam
George Peacock
IXL
Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredging Company
Keswick, South Australia
Sydney
Oakland, California
wood pulp
wool
1919 New Year Honours





Jones, Sir Henry (1862 - 1926)
Australian Dictionary of Biography
MUP
Serle, Percival
"Jones, Henry"
Dictionary of Australian Biography
Angus & Robertson
Categories
1862 births
1926 deaths
People from Hobart
Australian company founders

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