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John N. Jones Success
in agriculture is not, as a rule, achieved as early in life as in other lines.
Independence is reached in this line after much hard toil and years of
continuous effort and those who climb very high up the ladder are getting pretty
well along in years. While John N.
Jones, of Clear Creek Township, Jasper County, does not yet rank among our
wealthiest and most widely known agriculturists, it is not too much to predict
that future years will find him so, judging from the record he has already made
in this line and knowing his habits of close application and minute knowledge of
the various phases of husbandry. Mr.
Jones was born in Fulton County, Illinois, October 30, 1882, and there he spent
the first ten years of his life, having moved with his parents to Story County,
Iowa, and the family has been following general farming in this locality ever
since. He is the son of T. M.
and Matinden (Drummond) Jones, the
father a native of Illinois and the mother of Indiana, the latter having come to
Illinois when six months old, and there they both grew up, were educated and
married. They now live in
Independence Township, this County. John
N. Jones grew up on the farm and when but a boy made a regular hand in the
fields during crop seasons, and in the wintertime he attended school in his
neighborhood. On June 14, 1904, he was united in marriage with Edith C.
Perry, who was born near Rhodes, Marshall County, Iowa, August 4, 1883, being
the daughter of Harrison W. Perry and wife, a complete sketch of whom is to be
found elsewhere in this volume. To
Mr. and Mrs. Jones have been born four children, namely: Lela, born October 27,
1904; Minnie, born December 30, 1906; Blanche, born December 7. 1908; John, Jr.,
born June 23,1911. The two eldest
were born in Story County, the two younger children in Jasper County. Politically, Mr. Jones is a Democrat and both he and his wife are members of the Yeoman lodge at Collins. They keep their home supplied with good literature, and have not made the accumulation of sordid dollars the only or the chief aim of life. The Past and Present of Jasper County, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, 1912 B.F. Bowen Co., Indianapolis, IN, p. 1203. |
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