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.
 
GEORGE W. and ARTHUR A. JAMES

     William and Grizzelle James were natives of Pennsylvania, and moved to Ohio
in the early days.  They had a family of ten children -- Miriam, Hulda, Ellen,
George W., Harrison, Preston, Julius, William, and two who died in infancy.
George W. was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, April 1, 1836.  In 1845 the family
moved to Jackson county, Iowa, where, being the eldest boy, he received a
liberal education.  He resided at home until 1860, when he was attracted to the
mines of Nevada and California.  In 1863 he returned to his old home, and
volunteered in the Sixth Iowa Cavalry, serving until the close of the war.  He
again crossed the continent in 1866, and has since made his home on this coast.
In 1878 he came to Washington Territory and has since resided in Columbia, now
Garfield county.  December 27, 1856, he married Rosina Sharp, in Dubuque, Iowa.
They have been blessed with seven children:  Arthur A., born April 7, 1858;
Grizzelle, March 4, 1860; Emma N., April 25, 1862; George, February 6, 1865;
Lewis, March 31, 1867; Willie E., February 13, 1872; Ella Maud, September 9,
1875.  The first two and the third were born in Iowa, the others in Nevada.  The
oldest, Arthur A., is in partnership with his father in a fine ranch of 840
acres, on Deadman Prairie, about 16 miles north of Pomeroy, and near Snake
river.  They are engaged in farming and raising stock.  Their whole farm is
arable land, and this season they have 250 acres of grain, averaging thirty-five
bushels of wheat to the acre.  Their residence and farm improvement, form one of
our illustrations.  G. W. James is a member of Harmony Lodge, No. 16, I.O.O.F.
of Pomeroy.

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

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