Edward D. Jones Founder of Edward Jones
Edward D. Jones Founder of Edward Jones

Biography of Edward D. Jones

Early Life

Edward D. Jones founder of Edward Jones was a famous businessman and entrepreneur of United States of America. He bore in the year of 1893 on July 29th in Saint Louis, Missouri in United States of America After his initial education; he joined Bellefontaine High School which is located in Ohio in USA.  He graduate from there in the year of 1913 and after that, he was enrolled in New York University. He earned his degree from there in the year of 1916.

Initial Career

After his graduation degree earning from New York University, he started to find any job. His career started when he joined N. W. Halsy and Company. After couple of years, in the year of 1920, company sent him to Ohio in order to set up a brokerage house there. He left the company after sometime and later on joined Blair and Company which was located in Saint Louis.  He worked for the company for more than one and a half year as an insurance agent.

Founder of Edward Jones

Edward D. Jones is widely known and credited as founder of Edward Jones. After his initial career, he was working in Blair and Company those days. He worked there for twenty months but after that he faced a dispute in company. As a result, he left the company in early 1922s. The dispute was about his preceding a sale and it was the reason behind his foundation of Edward Jones. He founded the Edward Jones Company in the year of 1922 in Saint Louis and worked as a CEO till the year of 1968 over there.

Edward Jones

Edward Jones was founded by Edward D. Jones in the year of 1922. From the year of 1920, he was working in Blair and Company. After some time of working over there, he fell into a dispute with company officials about a sale preceding and it resulted in his leaving the company.  That is why; he founded his own company which he named as Edward Jones. Generally Edward Jones is a financial service and insurance, investments Company with its 11,000 branches in more than 30 countries all over the world including Canada, Argentina, Brazil, India, Nigeria, United Kingdom and Mexico. Presently this company has the 38015 employees working with it and its head quarter is in Saint Louis, Missouri in United States of America. The employee growth of company is about 8% with global revenue of 11.3 billion United States dollars. It was ranked firstly in the best place to work list in the year of 2013.

Death

He died in the year of 1982 on October 10th in United States of America. He was 89 years of age at the time of his death. He remained the Chief Executive officer of his company for more than 55 years.