Robertson County TN Archives Biographies.....Spain, Jesse T. 1868 - 
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   DR. JESSE T. SPAIN. As a dealer in drugs and general merchandise and as a

dental practitioner, Jesse T. Spain is one of Cross Plains' indispensable men.

Tennessee has always been his home, and has also been his father's, since

childhood. The latter, son of John Spain, a contractor who was born in Georgia

and who settled in Tennessee, where he spent the remainder of his life, his last

days being lived in Nashville. His son, named William, also became a contractor

and followed that walk of life during all his active years. His affairs have

been of successful issue, having yielded his family a comfortable living and

left him in the possession of an attractive farm in Robertson county. The year

of his birth was 1847 and he is still living, now retired. His wife, nee Fannie

Cavitt (1845-1910), was of Missouri birth, and, on her father's side, of Irish

parentage. The family lived formerly in North Carolina, but latterly in

Tennessee. The children of the Cavitt-Spain marriage were seven in number, five

of whom are still living. The Christian church and the Democratic political camp

are those chosen by William Spain and the other members of his family. He has

always been deeply interested in public affairs of a local nature.



   The oldest child and son of William Spain and Fannie Cavitt Spain was Jesse

T. Spain, born on December 17, 1869, in Robertson county, Tennessee. The years

of his school life were marked by his development in the educational courses of

Cross Plains and Orlinda. In 1896 Dr. Spain pursued studies in the College of

Dentistry at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville. His practice was at Auburn,

Kentucky, from where he removed to Bowling Green, which remained his home and

the center of his activities for five years.



   In 1902 Jesse T. Spain came to Cross Plains, where he has combined the

practice of his very useful profession with the supervision of a mercantile

establishment in which drugs are a specialty, to these being added the usual

articles to be found in a general store. With these interests, valuable in a

pecuniary way, Dr. Spain combines others. He is the fortunate possessor of a

large farm for which he has refused the sum of $10,000. Every dollar that Dr.

Spain owns, he has earned by his own industry and thrift, since coming out of

school.



   The estimable companion of Dr. Spain's domestic life is a daughter of N. L.

Howard, well known as a prosperous agriculturist and tobacco dealer of Robertson

county, where he owns property worth $15,000. It was in 1896 that Miss Bessie

Howard was united in marriage with. Jesse T. Spain. In the ensuing years their

home has been blessed by the advent of four children, William Howard, who at the

age of fourteen is still in school; Lewis, twelve years old and a pupil in the

public schools; and Fannie A., a little miss who is yet in the care of her

mother; and the baby boy, Jesse T., Jr.



   Mrs. Spain is a member of the Baptist church and her husband of the

Cumberland Presbyterian. He is a Democrat in polities. The orders of the Ancient

Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern

Woodmen of America, and the Knights of Pythias all claim his membership. He is a

prominent member of the State Dental Association.





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