From History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, 
publ. 1912, Page 1335-1336
 
JESSE GARFIELD MAXON, M.D.  Some one has aptly said, "He serves the Master 
best who serves humanity most."  There is no class to whom we owe more 
gratitude than the self-sacrificing, self-denying, noble-minded men whose life 
work is the alleviation of suffering and the ministering of comfort to the 
afflicted, to the end that the span of human existence may be lengthened and a 
greater degree of satisfaction enjoyed during the remainder of their sojourn.  
Among the physicians and surgeons of Walworth county and vicinity who are 
proficient in their chosen calling and are conscientious workers in the sphere 
to which their life energies are being devoted, the name of Dr. Jesse G. 
MAXON, of Harvard, Illinois, who, while yet young in years, has shown a 
profound knowledge of his profession.
 
Doctor MAXON was born a mile south of the village of Walworth, Walworth 
county, Wisconsin, June 9, 1880.  He is a scion of one of the prominent old 
families of this locality, being the son of Henry J. and Phebe (HOWLAND) 
MAXON.  Phebe HOWLAND was descended directly in the seventh or eighth 
generation from John HOWLAND, the last survivor of the Pilgrims who came over 
in the "Mayflower" in 1620.  For a complete history of the MAXON family the 
reader is referred to the sketch of N. Dwight MAXON, appearing on another page 
of this work.
 
Dr. Jesse G. MAXON grew to manhood on the home farm in Walworth township, this 
county, and he was graduated from the Walworth high school in 1897, then took 
a course in the normal department of the university of New Mexico, located at 
Albuquerque, New Mexico, from which he was graduated in 1901.  He has a 
natural talent for music, and he studied in this art at Milton College, being 
graduated from the musical department there in 1902, and he was also graduated 
from the scientific department of that in that institution, receiving the 
degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1904.  Thus exceptionally well equipped for the 
world's work, he began his career by teaching, which he followed two years at 
Jackson, Wisconsin, as principal of the public schools.  Turning his attention 
to medicine, he entered Hahnemann Medical College at Chicago in the fall of 
1906 where he made a splendid record, graduating in May 1910, and in June of 
that year he received the degree of Master of Arts from Milton College.  While 
in school he spent his summer vacations as assistant on the United States 
geological survey in Colorado and New Mexico, a very interesting work from 
which he received much benefit.  He also put in part of the time as an 
assistant of the Wisconsin state fish commission, also attended a summer 
session at the University of Wisconsin, and he spent two summers in the 
hospitals while taking his medical course.
 
Doctor MAXON located in Harvard, Illinois, in August 1910, and here he has 
devoted himself to the practice ever since with constantly increasing success, 
and has built up a fine practice in this locality, being thoroughly well 
informed in recent medical research and in up-to-date ways of treating various 
diseases and the future for him will evidently be replete with success of a 
very high order.
 
The Doctor is a thirty-second-degree Mason and a member of the Ancient Arabic 
Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.  He is a man of refined, upright 
character, broad-minded, genial and is eminently deserving of the high esteem 
in which he is held ably all classes.
 
Submitted by Carol