JONES, Jesse M. - Putnam

The hard and confining toil of the farm is greatly relieved by varying it with stock raising. The growth of the cities has been so great, in other words, the growth of the nonproducers has been so great, that the products of the farm command a much higher price than ever before. This is notably so with livestock. The farmer now makes most any grade of livestock raising pay him for his labor. His work then will consist, in part, in growing hay and corn for his animals and in marketing the latter. Orchard and garden products may be grown as side ventures, and many other products may be raised for the prices they will bring. Among the progressive agriculturists and stock men of Putnam County, who have made an intelligent studv of these lines with the best results in view and have concluded that greater profits can be made in the careful raising of good grades of stock than in anything else to which the farmer can turn his attention, is Jesse M. Jones, who owns a valuable landed estate in Monroe township. His birth occurred on October 17, 1863, in the locality where he has spent his life. He is the son of Hiram and Hannah (McCorkle) Jones. Grandfather Jones came to Putnam County in 1840. from Kentucky, where he was born, and he spent his remaining years in this County. His son. Hiram, grew up on the farm here and spent his life in farm work, dying February 15, 1870, when his son, Jesse M., of this review, was a small boy. Jesse M. Jones, who was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Jones, spent his youth with his grandfather. Mathew S. McCorkle. and he is at present living on the farm which was entered by Mr. McCorkle, who was a native of Fleming County, Kentucky, and who was one of the first settlers in Putnam County. When he came here he had the sum of one hundred dollars which enabled him to enter eighty acres of land from the government. Jesse M. Jones had the advantages of the usual common school education, gained at intervals with farming on the home place. On December 11, 1884, he married May Allen, born in Putnam County, June 2, 1866. the daughter of Robert and Mary E. (Slavens) Allen, whose maternal grandfather, Dr. John Slavens, was born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, March 1, 1811. He came to Putnam County. Indiana, in 1826. and was one of the early physicians here, known throughout the country. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Jones, named as follows: Edna Zella. born October 1, 1885: Glenn S., born February 9, 1887: Lucius Chapin. born June 25, 1889. Mr. Jones began life in a rather humble manner, but he was always inclined to hard work: this, in connection with good management, soon gav'e him a good foothold and he rapidly accumulated property until now he is the owner of one of the best and most valuable farms of Monroe township, consisting of three hundred acres, which he tills in such an adroit manner as to make it yield a handsome income from year to year, but the chief occupation of Mr. Jones is in stock raising, at which he is regarded by all as being very adept and on his place some fine specimens of all kinds of stock are to be found at all sea.sons; he feeds the products of his place very largely to his stock, preparing them for market where they seldom fail to bring fancy prices. He recently sold seventy-four head of hogs at eight dollars and eighty cents per hundred, or a total of one thousand five hundred fortv-six dollars and nine cents, which is considered a record for the County, in which he is regarded by everyone as one of the leading and progressive stock raisers. Politically he is a Republican indeed, there never was a Democrat in his family. He has a neat and attractively located home and everything about his place shows thrift and prosperity and that a gentleman of excellent taste and foresight has its management in hand.