Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Jump, David W, M D 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

DAVID W. JUMP, M. D. There are few professions that require the amount of 
diligent study and general information that is essential to the science of 
medicine. Among the physicians who realize the full importance of their 
responsibilities and who add dignity to the profession, is Dr. Jump, who has 
been engaged in continuous practice in Plainfield since his graduation in 
March, 1872. In addition to his practice, for some ten years he has conducted 
the leading drug store of the city, and this he still owns. He aims to keep up 
with the times in matters of research and discovery in the medical world, and 
to that end reads the leading medical journals and remains to this day a 
student of his profession. In what is now Chicago Junction, Huron County, 
Ohio, Dr. Jump was born August 24, 1847, a son of William H. and Margaret 
(Richards) Jump, natives respectively of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and 
Herkimer County, N. Y. His grandfather, Robert Jump, was reared on a 
plantation near Easton, Md., but in early manhood moved to Virginia. At his 
father's death he inherited four slaves, but these he freed, being opposed to 
the institution of slavey. After a short time in Virginia he settled in Ohio 
across the river from Wheeling. Two years later he moved to Richland County, 
Ohio, where he purchased a heavily-timbered tract, and this he cleared and 
improved. The remainder of his life of eighty-four years was spent on that 
place. While he moved from Virginia to get away from slavery influences and 
environments, yet when the Civil war came, his sympathies were wholly with the 
South, which he believed was not treated justly by the North. When the family 
settled in Ohio our subject's father was seven years of age. His health being 
poor, he was prevented from enjoying the pleasures and advantages of youth to 
a large extent. However, he secured a good education and for a time taught 
school, but his delicate health prevented him from achieving the success in 
life he would otherwise have gained. He died when fifty-three years of age. 
After the disintegration of the Whig party he affiliated with the Republicans. 
His wife survived him for twenty years, dying at the age of sixty-three. They 
were the parents of six sons and three daughters, namely: David W.; Alemby, 
now mayor of Chicago Junction, Ohio; Winfield Scott, also a resident of Ohio; 
Amos, of Norwalk, Ohio, who served as treasurer of his county for two terms; 
Robert, Marietta, Helen and Charles, who remain on the old homestead; and 
Lucy, deceased. In order to gain the money for his medical education our 
subject taught school, meantime giving his leisure days to the reading of 
medicine with Dr. Buckingham, of Chicago Junction. In March, 1872, he 
graduated from the medical department of the University of Michigan, since 
which he has built up a large practice in Plainfield. He is connected with 
Plainfield Lodge No. 536, A. F. & A. M. While he refuses official positions 
(except that of school director), he is firm in his allegiance to the 
Republican party and takes a lively interest in public matters. He was married 
in Plainfield to Miss Alice Watkins, who was born and educated in this city, 
her father having been a pioneer farmer of the county. The older son of Dr. 
and Mrs. Jump is Clyde W., who is a student in the literary and medical 
departments of the University of Michigan. The younger son, Charles Floyd, is 
a graduate of the Joliet high school, and now clerks in his father's drug 
store.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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