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1883 BIOGRAPHIES
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H. SAWYER JAMES,
M. D. The
character, professional ability and effective
services of Doctor James fully entitle
him to designation as one of the representative
physicians and surgeons of the Hanging Rock Iron
Region, and though his precedence as a member of
his profession was won in West Virginia, where
he remained fully twenty years, he is now
engaged in practice at McArthur, the judicial
center of his native County of Vinton, where he
initiated his professional endeavors on the 6th
of November, 1914, and where his ability and
personal popularity have been the forces that
have conspired to the upbuilding of his
substantial and representative general practice.
Doctor James was born in Brown Township, Vinton
County, Ohio, on the 1st of April, 1868, and is
a son of Richard T. and Eliza (McFarland)
James, the former of whom was born in West
Virginia and the latter in Ohio, their marriage
having been solemnized in Morgan County, Ohio.
About 1840 Richard T. James established
his residence in Vinton County, where he
purchased a tract of land and developed one of
the valuable farms of Brown Township. He
reclaimed much of his farm from the forest and
was a man whose steadfast purpose and sterling
integrity made him well worthy of the
unqualified esteem in which he was held.
He was born in the year 1813 and continued to
reside on his old homestead farm until his
death, at the age of seventy-four years.
He was one of the honored and influential
citizens of Vinton County, was a stalwart in the
camp of the republican party, and he was called
upon to serve in various local offices of public
trust, including that of township trustee, of
which he was the incumbent for a number of
years. His wife survived him by several
years and was seventy-six years of age when she
was summoned to the life eternal, both having
been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. They became the parents of nine
children, all of whom attained to years of
maturity with the exception of one, and of the
number, four are now living.
Dr. H. Sawyer James, who is the youngest of the
nine children, passed the period of his
childhood and early youth on the homestead farm
which was the place of his nativity, and while
early lending his aid in the work of the farm he
also made good sue of the advantages afforded in
the local schools, through the medium of which
he prepared himself for college. He was a
student in Ohio University, at Athens, for some
time, though he did not complete the full
academic course, and in initiating his
independent career he became a representative of
the pedagogic profession, in which he was a
successful teacher in the schools of Southern
Ohio. In the meanwhile he began reading
medicine under the effective preceptorship of
Dr. John W. Johnson, of Nelsonville, Athens
County, and finally he entered Starling Medical
College, in the City of Columbus. In this
institution he was graduated as a member of the
class of 1890, and after thus receiving his
degree of Doctor of Medicine he went to West
Virginia and established himself in practice at
Malden, Kanawha County, not far distant from the
City of Charleston. There he held the
position of physician and surgeon for the
Campbell Creek Coal Company for the long period
of seventeen years, the while his private
practice also became one of substantial and
successful order, so that he was known as one of
the leading physicians of that section at the
time when he returned to Ohio and engaged in
practice at New Plymouth, Vinton County.
Three years later he returned to West Virginia
and became assistant surgeon of Mount Hope
Hospital, at Huntington, where he continued his
service in this capacity for one; year and had
the opportunity of further fortifying himself in
clinical surgery. At the expiration of
this period Doctor James returned
again to his native county, in the autumn of
1914, and established himself in general
practice at McArthur, the county seat, as has
previously been noted in this context. He
is a close and appreciative student and keeps in
touch with the advances made in both medical and
surgical science, so that he is enabled to bring
to bear in his practice the most approved
methods and remedial agencies, his unequivocal
success affording the best voucher for his
technical ability and being indicative also of
his strong hold upon popular confidence and good
will. He is a member of the American
Medical Association and during the period of his
residence in West Virginia he was actively
affiliated with the Kanawha County Medical
Society and the West Virginia State Medical
Society. He is now an active member of the
Vinton County Medical Society and the Ohio State
Medical Society, the while he finds much
satisfaction in making his native county and
state the field of his earnest endeavors in his
exacting profession. The doctor's
political allegiance is given to the republican
party and both he and his wife attend and
support the Christian Church in their home
city.
On the 17th of July, 1890, was solemnized the marriage
of Doctor James to Miss Mayme Davis,
of Athens County, Ohio, where she was born on
the 27th of March, 1869, the youngest in a
family of three children. Mrs. James
is a daughter of Edwin and Cynthia (Cook)
Davis, both of whom were born and reared in
Vermont, where their marriage was solemnized.
The Davis family was founded in
New England in the colonial period of our
national history and representatives of the same
were patriot soldiers of the Continental Line in
the War of the Revolution, so that Mrs.
James is eligible for membership in the
society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution. Within a comparatively short
period after their marriage Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin Davis immigrated from the
old Green Mountain State to Ohio and settled in
Athens County. Mr. Davis
purchased land in Green Township, where he
reclaimed and developed a productive farm, this
homestead having continued to be his place of
abode until his death, at the age of sixty
years, and his widow having been somewhat more
than eighty years of age when she too was
summoned to the ''land of the leal." Both
were devout and active members of the Christian
Church, in which Mr. Davis served as
elder for many years, and in politics he was a
radical republican, - one influential in local
affairs of a public order. Doctor and
Mrs. James have no children.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock
Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated -
Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916
- Page 1199 |
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JAMES C. JOHNSTON
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock
Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated -
Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916
- Page 1118 |
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HORATIO SEYMOUR
JORDAN Source: A Standard
History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio,
Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis
Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1140 |
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