Biography of D. M. James - Conway Co, AR

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Submitted by: Cathy Barnes <bbarnes@cswnet.com>
        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 79

D. M. James, farmer and merchant in Point Remove Township, was born in
Mississippi, June 9, 1861. His parents, Philip and Mary (Windom)
James, were the parents of nine children, named: David (deceased),
William M, (deceased), Mary E. (deceased), John H. (deceased), Samuel
P. (deceased), Peyton H. (deceased), Sarah C. (wife of W. T. Bird),
Caroline (wife of James Huett), and D. M., the subject of this sketch.
Father was a farmer by occupation, and resided in Mississippi till his
death in 1867; he had been preceded by Mrs. James, who died in 1864;
she had been a member of the M. E. Church, South. Our subject was
mainly educated in Arkansas, having come to this State with his
brothers and sisters soon after his father's death. When he attained
his majority he began farming for himself on eighty acres and with
very limited equipment. He has since thriven, and now as before
stated, is engaged in commercial business in connection with his
farming operations. He is enterprising and progressive, and takes an
active part in all public improvements.