Gilbert, Frank T.  "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and
Garfield Counties, Washington Territory; and Umatilla County, Oregon."
Portland, OR: Print & Lithographing House of A. G. Walling, 1882. p. a20.
 
ANDREW J. JAMES

     Is the son of Berry and Epiety James, and was born near Lexington, Mo.,
March 4, 1834.  In 1852 he crossed the plains and settled in Linn county,
Oregon, the journey having occupied six months.  Having been reared to a farming
life, Mr. James took up a land claim and lived upon it seventeen years, tilling
the soil and providing for the wants of his growing family.  He then came to
Washington, and on the eighteenth of July, 1869, arrived at Whetstone valley,
Columbia (then Walla Walla) county, where he has since resided.  He purchased
his farm of H. H. Bailey, who had settled upon it two years before.  He owns 600
acres of meadow, grain and pasture land of an excellent quality, and raises hay,
grain, horses, hogs and cattle.  His residence and farm improvements are shown
on another page of this volume.  On the eighteenth of November, 1855, he married
Sarah Curl, a daughter of John and Sarah Curl, born in Carrol county, Missouri,
in 1840.  They have eight children:  Marion, Sephronia L. (Mrs. George
Stafford), Newton, Henry, Clara V., Isabelle, Ida, and Rosa.  Mr. James has
never entered the field of politics, but is living the quiet life of a farmer,
and engaged in building up the substantial resources of the country.

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Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in August 2006 by Diana Smith.

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