The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 724 JAMES A. CADWALLADER. James A. Cadwallader, who has been actively and successfully identified with farming interests in Yakima county during the past decade, is the owner of sixty acres of rich and productive land on the Tieton. His birth occurred in McDonough county, Illinois, on the 12th of August, 1877, his parents being George W. and Sarah (Nichols) Cadwallader, who established their home in Kansas in 1879. The father purchased land in Washington county of the latter state and there continued to reside to the time of his demise, which occurred in 1898. The mother still survives, making her home with a son in Washington county, Kansas. James A. Cadwallader acquired a public school education in his youth and after putting aside his textbooks turned his attention to general agricultural pursuits, being engaged in farming in Kansas until 1909. When thirty-two years of age he came to the northwest and settled in Yakima county, Washington, where he purchased twenty acres of land on the Tieton. He has since purchased an additional tract of forty acres, so that his place now comprises sixty acres of land, which he has devoted to the raising of hay, grain and potatoes. The farm today bears little resemblance to the tract which came into his possession, for the sagebrush has been transformed into fertile fields and rich crops of farm produce annually reward the care and labor of the owner. On the 17th of November, 1909, Mr. Cadwallader was united in marriage to Miss Laura Payne, a native of Washington county, Kansas, and a daughter of Frank J. and May (Wiley) Payne, who were natives of Iowa and Wisconsin respectively. They became pioneer settlers of the Sunflower state, where they were married and where the father took up a homestead. Subsequently they removed from Washington county to Norton county, Kansas, where Mr. Payne passed away in 1899 and where his widow still makes her home. To Mr. and Mrs. Cadwallader has been born a daughter, Edith May, whose natal day was November 12, 1916. In his political views Mr. Cadwallader is a republican while fraternally he is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America. His wife is a consistent and devoted member of the Methodist church. Both are highly esteemed in the community in which they reside and Mr. Cadwallader is widely recognized as a substantial agriculturist and representative citizen who well deserves the proud American title of a self-made man. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.