Melvin Jones (Lions Club), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Melvin Jones (Lions Club)

American businessman

Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1879

Place of Birth: Graham County, Arizona, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jun-1961

Profession: businessperson, philanthropist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Melvin Jones (Lions Club)

  • Melvin Jones (January 13, 1879 – June 1, 1961) was Secretary-treasurer of Lions Clubs International. He was born in Fort Thomas, Arizona (at that time the Arizona Territory).
  • His father was a captain in the United States Army.
  • In 1886 or '87, the family moved east when his father was transferred.
  • Melvin Jones settled in Chicago, where he studied at the Union Business and Chaddock colleges of Quincy, Illinois.
  • At age 33 he was the sole owner of his own insurance agency in Chicago and became a member of the local business circle, and was elected secretary shortly thereafter.
  • Melvin Jones was also a Freemason.After two years, prompted by his personal code – "You can't get very far until you start doing something for somebody else" – Jones proposed that the talents of the circle's members could be better utilized in other areas of community life, He invited representative from other men's clubs in and around Chicago to a meeting to devise a suitable organization and from that meeting, Jones subsequently integrated his club into an existing initiative that further led to his selection as Secretary of the "International Association of Lions Clubs" later to be named "Lions Clubs International".
  • Jones eventually gave up his insurance agency to work full-time at Lions International Headquarters which he later relocated from Evansville, Indiana to Chicago. In 1945, Jones represented Lions Clubs International as a consultant at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco.
  • In 1950, Jones had a child named Theresa Fassbender.

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