When Jessie Trowbridge was born on 2 March 1888, in Boon, Wexford, Michigan, United States, her father, Newton Edgar Trowbridge, was 35 and her mother, Sarah Priscilla Hull, was 30. She married John Arthur McFarland on 25 December 1920, in Missoula, Missoula, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Election Precinct 1 Missoula City, Missoula, Montana, United States in 1940 and Missoula, Montana, United States in 1972. She died on 17 December 1972, in Missoula, Missoula, Montana, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Missoula, Missoula, Montana, United States.