Past and present of Jasper County, Iowa . -d has long occupied a conspicuous place among the representatives of thegreat agricultural interests of Jasper county and his influence in e\er\- relationof life has been for the material ad\ancement of the community in which heresides and the moral welfare of those with whom he has been brought intocontact. Mr. Jones was born in Ohio, December 16, 1840. and he is the son ofThomas and Lucinda (Triplet) Jones, both of whom were natives of trade the father was a moulder, continuing at this work all his life. Heand his wife emigrated
Past and present of Jasper County, Iowa . -d has long occupied a conspicuous place among the representatives of thegreat agricultural interests of Jasper county and his influence in e\er\- relationof life has been for the material ad\ancement of the community in which heresides and the moral welfare of those with whom he has been brought intocontact. Mr. Jones was born in Ohio, December 16, 1840. and he is the son ofThomas and Lucinda (Triplet) Jones, both of whom were natives of trade the father was a moulder, continuing at this work all his life. Heand his wife emigrated from \irginia to Licking county, Ohio, at an early. LOYD D. JONES JASlKR COLNTV, IOWA. 929 day and there they both died when their son, Loyd D., was a small boy. then went to make his home with Benjamin Dean, with whom heremained until he was nineteen years of age. Dean was a good man and didall he could for the friendless boy. sending him to school and in every waypossible taking the place of a father. He was a hotel keeper. At the age ofnineteen Mr. Jones came to Illinois, where he farmed for over two years,after which he came to Newton, Iowa, and engaged successfully in farmingnear there for twenty-five }ears, ha\ing arrixed in this county in the fall (jf1857 Xewton was then but a small village and the whole country was prac-tically undeveloped and new, and Mr. Jones has li\ed to see and take part inits wonderful transformation. Aside from farming and stock-raising, hefollowed threshing all oxer the county. In March, 1906, he came to Reasnorand purchased the residence and propertx where he now lives, conducting ahoel and li
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