Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 727
ALBERT M. JONES

A pioneer farmer of Harrison county, Iowa, is Albert M. JONES, who has been a resident of the county for more than forty years. He was born and reared in Illinois, but located in Harrison county, Iowa, before his marriage. He has engaged extensively in stock raising and has the distinction of being the first man to bring a Poland-China hog to this county. He has been very successful as a breeder of Poland-China hogs and full-blooded Shorthorn cattle. During his long career in this county he has been prominently identified with its civic life and has served for many years in an official capacity in this township. He is well and favorably known and is held in high esteem by those with whom he has been associated.

Albert M. JONES, the son of William S. and Eliza (MCCURDY) JONES, was born November 5, 1846, in Hancock county, Illinois. His father was a native of Wales and came to the United States when fourteen years of age with his parents, who settled in Ohio.

William F. JONES was married in Ohio and in 1846 moved to Illinois where he lived for twenty years. In 1866 he located in Harrison county, Iowa, but died about a year after settling in the county. Seven children were born to William F. JONES and wife, six boys and one girl.

Albert M. JONES was the fourth child born to his parents and the youngest one now living. All of his older brothers and sisters are still living. Mr. JONES remained at home until he was twenty years of age and then began working out by the month. He handled stock for farmers in his native state and in this way became an expert stockman. He remained in Illinois after his parents moved to Harrison county and did not come to this county until after their death. He then located in Harrison county, where he received his share of the seven hundred and eighty-nine acres which has father had bought. He has since farmed about one mile south of Pisgah, in Jackson township. When he came to this county there were only three houses between Pisgah and Magnolia, and Council Bluffs was the nearest railroad station. For the first few years they raised some corn and wheat, but devoted most of their time and attention to stock raising. As has been stated, Mr. JONES has been extensively engaged in the breeding of high-class cattle and hogs, and was formerly an exhibitor at county fairs. He exhibited the Poland-China hogs which he bought in Fulton county, Illinois, and shipped to Harrison county, at a number of fairs and won a great many prizes with them.

Mr. JONES was married February 5, 1873, to Anna POLEN, who was born December 9, 1852, in Harrison county, Ohio, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (CRUMRINE) POLEN. Her parents moved to Buchanan county, Iowa, in 1853, and about 1870 they moved to Harrison county, where they bought a farm. The mother of Mrs. JONES died when she was a small girl and her father later remarried.

Mr. and Mrs. JONES have three children, two sons and a daughter, Wallace, Byron B. and Jetta M. Wallace lives in Pisgah, and is in the real estate business. He married Minnie PECK, and has three children living, Ray, Alice and Mary. Byron B., who lives in Pisgah, married Cassie DICKEY, and has five children, Tessie, Albert, Hugh, Ruth and Lawrence. Jetta M. married Mathew COUGHLIN, and lives on a farm two miles south of the old Milton SILSBY farm.

Mr. JONES is a Republican and has been one of his party's leaders in political affairs for many years. He has served as trustee of Jackson township for ten years, during which time he has rendered to his fellow citizens faithful and efficient service. Mr. JONES is one of the oldest farmers of his township, and has so lived during his long career here as to merit the high esteem in which he is universally held.

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