John R. Jones

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Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 9/21/2005 at 20:37:27

Dr. J. R. Jones, a resident of Fertile Township, is registered as an eclectic physician. He graduated from the Eclectic Medical College, at Cincinnati, in May, 1878. Coming to this county he entered upon the duties of his profession, which he follows to the time of the present writing. Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1884, p.597

John R. Jones, M. D. , was born in Green Co., Wis., Oct. 30, 1852. He was the only child of John and Elizabeth (Hughes) Jones, natives of England, where they were married. They were among the early settlers of Green county, where the mother died in 1853. The father again married and lives in Freeborn C., Minn. John R. Jones was reared on his father's farm, and after leaving the high schools he studied medicine with Dr. D. C. Rowland, of Twin lakes, Freeborn Cp., Minn., remaining with him three years. He attended the Eclectic Medical Institution of Cincinnati, Ohio. Graduating from that instruction in 1878, after which he came t Fertile and engaged in the practice of his profession, which he followed until the fall of 1881, when entered the Bennett Medical College at Chicago and graduated in the spring of 1882, when he returned to Fertile and resumed his practice, which he has since followed with good success. In the spring of 1879 he put in a stock of drugs. He was married Oct. 15, 1879, to Zella Williams, born in Ohio, June 1, 1861. They have one child – Prudy. Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 766.