Early Days
Jones came to Minneapolis from upstate New York in 1876. He got a job as a meat deliverer, but was unimpressed with the profession, so he quit it and invested $500 in a fish market on Hennepin Avenue. The fish market prospered so much that Jones was able to buy a front-page advertisement in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. It displayed him as a bird with oysters for wings. The advertisement earned him the nickname "The Oyster King" which stuck for the rest of his life. Owning the fish market also earned him the nickname "Fish".
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