In the small, idyllic, extraordinarily picturesque town of Granville, Ohio, there exists a grand stone manor, straight out of central casting. Beautifully constructed in the Jacobean Revival style, the elegant Granville Inn harkens back to an earlier era; a time when railroads created vast wealth for a fortunate few, wealth that seemed to have no end. John Sutphin Jones was one such railroad and coal magnate; a self-made businessman who worked his way up from train conductor to president of a West Virginia coal mine in under two decades. He later would acquire his own coal mines, while also constructing branch railroads. Although he lived and worked in Chicago, he…