EVAN JONES, a
representative of one of the old and respected
families of Tippecanoe County, resides on section 10, Jackson Township,
engaged in farming and stock-raising. He was born where he now
lives,
May 24, 1853, a son of DR. STEPHEN and SIDNEY (BOGGS) JONES. He
was
reared on the home farm which he now owns and occupies, and which
contains
320 acres of well-improved land, under a fine state of
cultivation.
He devotes considerable attention to the raising of stock, making a
specialty
of short-horn cattle, and Norman and English shire horses and has at
present
three fine imported stallions.
The father of our subject
was born in Ashby, Massachusetts, January
29, 1818, and was reared on his father's farm until reaching the age of
seventeen years, when he entered an academy as a student. In 1838
he entered the Medical department of Harvard University, from which he
graduated in 1842. After his graduation he went immediately to
Mudge,
New Hampshire, and there formed a partnership with Dr. Shurtleff, with
whom he was associated in the practice of medicine in that rough
country
for three years. Thinking to better his fortune in the then far
West,
he, in 1845, bade farewell to his native land, and traveled by rail and
stage to Albany, thence by canal to Buffalo and from there by steamboat
to Cleveland, where he again took the stage for Chillicothe,
Ohio.
He located at the latter point, and became one of the most extensive
and
prominent practitioners in the Scioto Valley. He was married in
Chillicothe,
May 1, 1849, to MISS SIDNEY BOGGS, and to them were born five children,
named--EDGAR T., SALLIE M., EVAN (the subject of this sketch), LYDIA
and
CHARLES. EDGAR married FANNIE SLOAN, who died leaving two
children,
named HELEN and FRANCIS. SALLIE is the wife of DR. J.C. WEBSTER,
of Lafayette. EVAN married CLARA KENDLE, and to them was born one
son, STEPHEN, who is now deceased. LYDIA is the wife of C. M.
LANG,
of Lafayette, and they are the parents of four children named--CLARA,
SIDNEY,
CHARLES and FANNIE. CHARLES, who lived in Union Township, married
EFFIE COWAN, and they have three children, named--CHARLES, STEPHEN and
MARY.
DR. JONES came to
Tippecanoe County, in 1852, and settled on the
land now occupied by the subject of this sketch, and here he engaged in
farming and stock-raising. He acquired a large property, and at
his
death, which occurred January 2, 1879, he left his family in
comfortable
circumstances. His widow survived until January 2, 1883, dying at
the age of sixty-three years.
Biographical Record
and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana,
pp. 605-606
Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888
