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Dr. Claude Perry Jones was a general practitioner born March 6, 1870. He was the son of Winslow Jefferson and Lucy Kemp Jones. He graduated from Dennison University with a B. S. degree in 1890, Harvard University and a M. D. Degree in 1893 and Boston University in 1905. He was a member of Signa Chi. Dr. Jones married Hattie Kemp in Boston, Massachusetts in 1891. Their children were Ruth, Olive, Elinor, Elizabeth, Claude Jr., Lucile and Marshall. He worked as Superintendent of Physician's Hospital in Vineland, New Jersey. Dr. Jones authored two books with A. L. Sykes. The first was Banduk Jaldi Banduk! (Quick My Rifle) published in New York by Cortland Publishing in 1907. It was published as a "Near Future" novel, known today as Science Fiction. The second was The Countersign: a Story of Tibet, in 1909. It was a work of fiction published in Boston by Richard G. Badger. He founded the first hospital in Bay City, Bay City Hospital in 1913. In 1922 he was superintendent at Ford Republic, a self-governing school for boys in Farmington, Michigan.
Other affiliations included Captain of the 15th
Sanitary Train Recreation, Tennis Club, Mystic Shrine, Rep. Unit
Res. and Office in Farmington, Michigan. |
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Plans have just been completed for the new Bay City hospital. Dr. C. P. Jones has purchased the building at 2408 Ave F of L. G. Schuster, and will at once begin to remodel it. An addition will be built for a modern operating room and office and the interior will be altered so as to have two wards of three or four beds each and three private rooms. This will give accommodations for nine or eleven patients. The doctor states that if conditions warrant it he has made arrangements for the purchase of another building that can be moved and joined to this one and so double the number of patients cared for. The management of the hospital will be entirely under the direction of the superintendent Miss Genevieve T. Sharpless and every physician can bring his patients on exactly the same terms. Dr. Jones wishes the public to understand that except that he has assumed the financial responsibility of the hospital, he has no more connection with it than every other physician in Bay City and Matagorda county. Any patient can come and have the attendance of their own physician, just as in their own home, and can receive visits from friends and relatives at any time during their stay unless their physician forbids it. No contagious diseases will be admitted. The equipment is especially suitable for the care of confinement cases and of surgical cases of the greatest magnitude, as well as non-contagious medical cases. Miss Sharples comes here from the successful management of a similar institution at Vineland, N. J., and says the principle on which success rests is to run a hospital to please the patients, and with the assurance that this principle will be carried out she asks that the public give the Bay City hospital a fair trial.
The Daily Tribune, March 14, 1913 |
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As surgery was only a small part of Dr. Jones’ practice, he helped Dr. Loos set up a practice in Palacios, Texas. Dr. Loos would be able to refer patients to Dr. Jones’ hospital in Bay City, and Loos could make the trip by auto from Palacios to Bay City whenever it was necessary to operate on a patient with Dr. Jones handling the postoperative care.
Dr. Jones enlisted and sold his hospital to two
trained nurses, Dorris Gordon and Louise Royer, who ran the hospital
for several years. After his discharge, Dr. Jones decided not to
return to Bay City, instead relocating near Pocatello, Idaho. |
