Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Little, Jesse 1868 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JESSE LITTLE.

    Jesse Little is a scion of one of the most prominent families of West Creek
township, and he has himself in a most commendable manner carried out the
traditions of the family history and made his own career in the township a
conspicuous example of industry and sagacious business management as well as
public-spirited citizenship.

    Mr. Little was born on the old homestead on which he still resides, in West
Creek township, January 17, 1868, and was the fourth in the family of children
born to Joseph and Mary (Gerrish) Little, whose history in detail will be found
on other pages of this work. Mr. Little was reared in his home township, with
his early education acquired in the common schools, and he afterward entered
Purdue University and in 1894 graduated from the agricultural department. He is
thus a twentieth-century farmer, one who believes in making the tilling of the
soil a science just as the pursuit of any other profession, and he combines with
the necessary practical experience and good common sense of the old-time
husbandman the skill and experimental knowledge derived from thorough study of
all the conditions tending to retard or promote the success of farming. While in
college he took a foremost part in athletics, and played tackle on the Purdue
football team, being so vigorous and well trained that he always escaped injury.

    August 28, 1898, he was married to Miss Martha Buchanan, and the two
children of this marriage are Mary and Earl B. Mrs. Little was born in Porter
county, Indiana, was educated in the high schools at Hebron and Crown Point, and
was then a student for two years at the ladies' seminary at Oxford, Ohio. She
was a successful teacher in Porter and Lake counties, and for two years taught
in the city schools of Hammond. Her father is now deceased, and her mother is a
resident of Hebron.

    Mr. Little is a stanch Republican, having cast his first presidential vote
for Harrison. He has also served as a delegate from his township to the district
convention. He and his wife are members of the Lake Prairie Presbyterian church,
and have always contributed to the benevolences worthy their consideration. He
and his brother James have about one thousand acres of the fine bottom land of
Wrest Creek township, and he resides on and owns his interest in the old
homestead of two hundred and forty acres. He has been unusually successful in
raising stock, and in whatever enterprise of the character that he has
undertaken he has achieved a large measure of prosperity.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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