Biographical Sketch of J. T. Hume, Johnson County, Missouri, 
Jefferson Township

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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J. T. Hume, a prosperous and influential farmer and stockman of Jeffer-
son township, is a native of Virginia.  He was born in 1850, son of 
John W. and Margaret (Fisher) Hume.  The father of John W. Hume was a
native of Scotland.  In 1877, J. T. Hume moved from Virginia, where he
was reared and educated, to Shelbina, Missouri.  After remaining there
several years, he returned to his old home in Virginia, where he resid-
ed nearly three years, when he moved to Kansas in 1885.  For four years
he lived in that state and then moved to Logan county, Oklahoma, where
he homesteaded 160 acres of land.  Mr. Hume later traded this farm in
Oklahoma for 120 acres of land in Johnson county, Missouri, to which
place he moved in 1897.  Since that time he has remained in this county
and constantly increased his holdings until he is now the owner of 340
acres of land, located in the best farming district of the state.  Two
hundred acres of the Hume place are in grass and pasture.  Mr. Hume is
of the belief, held by the best informed agriculturists, that to turn
the land back to grazing land and by the rotation of crops the soil 
will be restored to its original fertility and thus be conserved.  In 
1884, J. T. Hume and Maggie Combs were united in marriage.  Maggie 
(Combs) Hume is the daughter of Robert and Mary Combs, who came from
Kentucky to Missouri in an early day.  Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hume are the
parents of four children: Mrs. Mary L. Phoenix, Grand Juction, Colorado;
Roy Lewis, Knob Noster, Missouri; Harry T., Knob Noster, Missouri; and
Otis, Knob Noster, Missouri.  Mr. Hume is quietly residing on his farm
in Jefferson township (his sons having the active supervision of the
farm work.  He is a man of pleasant, genial, kindly manners, one who 
has a wide circle of friends in Johnson county.  Both he and Mrs. Hume
are widely known and respected and they are numbered among the county's
best and most substantial families.

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