Charles S. Jobes was born in 1853 in northeastern Ohio. In 1871 he went south to Texas and Mississippi and worked in engineering, railroad, and levee construction for a few years. In 1878 he opened a bank in Kosciusko, Mississippi, at which his younger brother Andrew Cook joined him as cashier. In 1885 Charles sold the bank to his brother and moved to Attica, Harper County, Kansas.

In Attica Jobes organized the Attica State Bank. He also owned and operated the Attica Stock Farm Company and in 1898 was appointed bank examiner for the region that included Kansas, Missouri, part of Nebraska, and Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). In 1901 he took over as president of the American National Bank of Kansas City, Missouri. In 1910 he became vice president for the Pioneer Trust Company of Kansas City, Missouri. Jobes was also active in Kansas Republican Party politics.

Charles S. Jobes died in 1929 in Kansas City, Missouri.

Andrew Jobes also moved to Kansas and continued working in the banking industry, serving as vice president of the First National Bank in Kansas City, Kansas from 1908 until his death in 1933. He was also a director with the Atschison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, as well as a director of the Citizens National Bank in Fort Scott, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, and the Kansas Milling Company of Wichita.