Thomas Decatur Jones (1852-1889) was in the tobacco business, buying into an auction house in 1880 and building a monumental brick warehouse at Morgan and Great Jones streets in 1885. He was born on a tobacco plantation, "Bachelor's Hall," in Pittsylvania County, Va. and came to Durham in 1881 to represent the tobacco merchandising business he and...
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