Edward D. "Ted" Jones

Edward D. "Ted" Jones (December 18, 1925-October 3, 1990) was an heir to Edward Jones Investments who built the firm's signature small town brokerage system and was to devote his last years along with his wife Pat Jones to establishing the Katy Trail State Park in Missouri.

Jones was born in St. Louis, Missouri and studied agriculture at the University of Missouri. During World War II he was a first seargent in the Army. After the war 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). He was to start the company's 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 Jones-Confluence Point State Park in honor of his wife and him.

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