Elisha Jones (b. 1832; d. 1888) was the first superintendent of the Ann Arbor Public Schools, a position he held from 1867 to 1870. Jones Elementary School was named after him.

He is buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Ann Arbor.

Sources

  • Elisha Jones, University of Michigan faculty history
  • Elisha Jones, Faculty History Project, University of Michigan
  • Burke A. Hinsdale and Isaac Newton Demmon, History of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1906), pp. 262-263.
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