Oliver K. Jones was reared to manhood in his native county, receiving his education in the common schools near his home, and later attending the private schools of Bethlehem. He has been a lifelong agriculturist, economical and industrious, and therefore prosperous, and now owns one hundred and twenty-six acres of well cultivated and finely improved land, where he still resides, though living a retired life. He has served as School Director for several years, and has held other local offices. In politics he has the interests of the Republican Party at heart, and is active in public affairs, both national and local.

Our subject and his estimable wife are active members of the Lutheran Church at Freemansburg, and are deeply interested in the cause of Christianity. Mr. Jones is an Elder in the church and is well known in this locality. Two sons have been born to him and his wife, Harry O. and Charles, both of whom are employed in the War Department of the United States Government at the Bethlehem Iron Works in Bethlehem, under Captain McNutt.