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LABAN M. JONES, M. D., was born in Spencer County, Ind., November 3, 1854, the third son in a family of four children born to Dennis C. and Tabitha (McCoy) Jones, both natives of Indiana. Laban M. received a good common school education in youth, remaining at home and assisting on the farm until his majority, when he entered the Evansville Commercial College, from which he graduated with honor. He then read medicine eighteen months with Dr. Travis G. Dailey, of Boonville, after which he took his preliminary course of lectures at the Evansville Medical College, and after reading one year with his old preceptor, entered the Physicians and Surgeons’ School at Keokuk, Iowa, where he graduated in 1880. After graduating he practiced his profession with success one year in partnership with Dr. Allison Quiatt. He then purchased property and located in Tennison, Warrick Co., Ind., where he was the first practicing physician. He was the first Postmaster at Tennison, and in partnership with his brother, George T., opened a grocery and dry goods store for a time. In 1883 he was appointed depot and express agent, and erecting a large building used it for a depot and also now uses it for his warehouse of farming implements and building material. Dr. Jones was married May 29, 1879, to Miss Mary A. Byers, daughter of Uriah and Elizabeth (Skelton) Byers, and this family of children have been born to them: Travis A., born April 1, 1880; Edwin E., May 14, 1882, and Cecil W., May 26, 1884. He is a Republican, and he and wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.