Durham, N. N.  "Spokane and the Inland Empire; History of the City of Spokane
and Spokane County Washington."  Vol. 3.  S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912.  
Vol. 2.

JAMES ALFRED WAYNE
 
	James Alfred Wayne, who for the past three years has been county attorney of
Shoshone county, is one of the brilliant and promising young members of the
legal fraternity of Wallace. His birth occurred at Houghton, Michigan, on the
5th of December, 1880, his parents being Benjamin Franklin and Mary Ann (Quirk)
Wayne, the father of American extraction, and the mother a native of the Isle of
Man, but now a resident of Spokane. His father was one of those who responded to
the country's call in the '60s, going to the front with the Twenty-fifth
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry.
	Although a native of Michigan, James Alfred Wayne spent a large portion of
his boyhood and youth in Iowa, acquiring his preliminary education in the public
schools of Alta, that state. After graduating from the high school in 1899 he
entered the University of Minnesota, where he pursued a law course, being
graduated with the degree of LL.B. with the class of 1903. He was admitted to
the bar soon thereafter and began his professional life as a member of the legal
department of the Mlinneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, continuing
in the service of this company until 1904. Believing that the west afforded a
wider field and greater opportunities to a young man, Mr. Wayne then came to
Wallace, where he established an office and engaged in general practice.
Possessed of more than average capabilities, he soon won recognition by reason
of his skill in untangling legal technicalities and discovering the minor points
upon which the decision of a case so often hinges. Mr. Wayne is well qualified
both by nature and training for the profession he has elected to follow, his
keen mental faculties, fluency of expression and quick reasoning powers most
ably serving him in all forensic encounters. In November, 1908, he was elected
county attorney and reelected to the same office at the expiration of his term
in 1910. During the period of his incumbency his manner of handling the county's
cases has at all times met with the full expectations of his constituency,
serving not only to sustain but strengthen their confidence in the wisdom of
their choice.
	In September, 1910, Mr. Wayne was united in marriage to Miss Alice M. Wade,
a daughter of James H. and Ella Wade of Mullan, Idaho, the parents being among
the pioneer settlers of this section, having located here in 1884 and ever since
making it their home.
	Mr. Wayne is a stanch republican in his political views, deeming the policy
of that party best adapted to sustain the highest interests of the majority. He
is an active member of the Knights of Pythias, having passed through all of the
chairs, and also of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Wallace Lodge, No.
331. Besides his professional duties and official responsibilities, Mr. Wayne is
now acting as secretary of The LaClede Mining Company and is vice president of
the Amalgamated Stockholding Company of Wallace, while he served as a director
of the Wallace National Bank of Wallace for one year. Although he has only
passed his thirty-first year, in all of his various connections, both
commercially and legally, Mr. Wayne has given conclusive proof of possessing
those qualities that make the success of his career in almost any field assured.



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