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John
Hallberg Jones
John Hallberg Jones and Lorraine "Lane" Yatckoske Jones
are lifetime residents of Minnesota, having attended
high school together. They have two sons and seven
grandchildren
Mr. Jones attended
the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. After a
thirty-seven year career in the paper industry, Mr. Jones
retired a Partner in
Unisource Worldwide Inc. in
2000.
Memberships
* General Society of Colonial Wars (Gentleman of the
Council of the
Wisconsin Society)
* National Gavel
Society (Honorary President)
* Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Fourth Vice President
General; Founder
Member)
* National
Society Americans of Royal Descent (Archivist
General;
Member
of the Most Venerable Order of Saint Louis)
* Order
of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (former Treasurer
General)
*
Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in
the United States of America
(former Treasurer General; current Assistant Treasurer General)
* Order of the Crown in America
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Honorary
President General)
* National Guild of
St. Margaret (Marshall Grand Protector for Minnesota)
* Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Surety of the Class of
2011)
* Military Order of the Crusades (Surety of the
Class of 2011)
* Colonial
Order of the Acorn
* Colonial Society of Pennsylvania
*
National Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution
(former Vice
President General; 1985 Minuteman Award Recipient; former President
of the Minnesota Society; current Secretary-Treasurer of the
Minnesota
Society, serving for over forty years)
*
General Society Sons of the
Revolution
(former President of Minnesota
Society)
* Military Society of the War of 1812
* Order of
Scions of Colonial Cavaliers 1640-1660
* National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Honorary Governor
General; Minnesota Branch Founding Governor)
* Society of
the Friends of St. George's & Descendants of the Knights
of
the Garter
(Life Descendant Member)
*
Order of the Founders and Patriots
of America
(Wisconsin Society former
Councilor General)
* Jamestowne Society
* Veteran Corps of Artillery State
of New York
* Continental Society Sons of Indian Wars (Honorary
Governor General)
* Order of Indian Wars of the United States
(Honorary Commander)
*
Society of the Descendants
of Colonial Clergy
*
National Huguenot Society
(Minnesota Society former
President)
*
General Society of the War
of 1812
(former Vice President
General for
Minnesota of the General Society; current Secretary and former President
of the Minnesota Society)
*
National Society of Sons of American
Colonists
(Founder; Honorary
Governor General; current Secretary General)
*
National Society Sons of Colonial
New England
(current Treasurer General)
*
General Society of Mayflower
Descendants
(former Member of Board of
Assistants of the Minnesota Society)
* Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
*
Hereditary Order Descendants
Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution
(Chaplain General; former Deputy Treasurer General)
*
National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters
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Sons
and Daughters of the Colonial & Antebellum Bench & Bar
1565-1861
*
Order of Lafayette
*
Military Order of Foreign Wars of
the United States
*
Military Order of the World Wars
(Founding Adjutant of Fort Snelling
Chapter; former Commander, current Chaplain)
*
Presidential Families of America
* National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
*
Flagon & Trencher: Descendants of
Colonial Tavern Keepers
*
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil
War
*
Sons of Confederate
Veterans
*
Military Order of the Stars and Bars
* National Order of the
Blue and Gray (Secretary-Treasurer General)
* Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
(First Chaplain General)
* Hereditary Order of
the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies of
America (Charter Member)
* First Families of Massachusetts
* Order of the First Families of Maine
*
Descendants of the Knights of the Bath
* Order of the First World War
* Order of the Second World War
* Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783
*
Order of the First Families of New Hampshire (Founder
member, Chaplain
General)
Chivalric Orders
*
The Most Venerable Order of the
Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
(Officer
Companion)
*
Sovereign Military Order of the
Temple of Jerusalem (Grand
Cross,
Founder, Prior I, and currently Secretary-Treasurer of the Priory of Our
Lady of Sorrows of the
West;
former Grand
Secretary of the Grand Priory
of the USA)
*
Knight of Grace of the Military and Hospitaller Order of
Saint Lazarus of
Jerusalem
* Ordo Sancti Constantini Magni
(Grand Officier;
member of
the Council of
Archons of the government of the Order;
former Administrative Officer for
the Exarchate of the USA)
Other Notes
Mr. Jones is also active in numerous fraternal orders.
He has been involved in various political and community
activities over the years, including management of state
Senatorial campaigns and PTA leadership. He is
a Kentucky
Colonel; an Honorary Chief of the Minneapolis Fire
Department; a LT COL Aide de Camp of the Alabama State
Militia; and an Arkansas
Traveler.
Mr. Jones is also an accomplished magician, an avid
ornithologist, pianist, and traveler, having logged over
one million airline miles. In
1996 he returned to travel exclusively by train, his
lifelong favorite method of travel.
Lane and John attend Southview Seventh Day Adventist
Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
