Edward D. "Ted" Jones, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEdward D. "Ted" Jones
American businessman
Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1925
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Date of Death: 03-Oct-1990
Profession: investment banker
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Edward D. "Ted" Jones
- Edward David "Ted" Jones, Jr.
- (December 18, 1925 – October 3, 1990), the son of the founder of Edward Jones Investments, later ran the firm and built its signature small town brokerage system.
- He devoted his last years along with his wife Pat Jones to establishing the Katy Trail State Park and the Prairie Fork Conservation Area in Missouri. Jones was born in St.
- Louis, Missouri and studied agriculture at the University of Missouri.
- After World War II he returned to the University of Missouri and in 1947 worked as a page on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
- He worked for a year at Josephthal & Co. He returned to St.
- Louis in 1948 to work for his father (Edward D.
- Jones).
- Jones instituted the firm's branch office business model and oversaw the opening of the first one-person branch office in Mexico, Missouri.
- He was managing partner of the firm from 1968 to 1980 during which the firm expanded to 300 branch offices. In the last 10 years of his life, he donated $2.2 million for Missouri to acquire property along 200 miles of abandoned Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad rail tracks to form a bicycle path for the Katy Trail State Park.
- The planned eastern terminus of the park is the confluence of the Missouri River and Mississippi River.
- In 2004 the park at the confluence was named Edward "Ted" and Pat Jones-Confluence Point State Park in honor of his wife and him. In 2015 Edward "Ted" Jones, Jr.
- was inducted into the "Hall of Famous Missourians" during a ceremony at the state capitol.
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