Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Reading, James N 
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Author: Bio/Gen Record LaSalle/Grundy 1900

James N. Reading, deceased, was a native of Hamden, New Jersey, the son and 
eldest child of Joseph Reading, and was prepared for college at the Princeton 
Academy, then entered Nassau Hall in 1827, and graduated in 1829, taking the 
fifth honor in a class of twenty-six; studied law in Trenton; was admitted to 
the bar in 1832, and became a counselor at law in 1836. In 1835 he married 
Sarah C. A. Southard. From 1832 to 1850 he practiced law in Flemington, 
fifteen of which years he was prosecuting attorney for Hunterdon county.

In 1850 he left New Jersey and removed to Jefferson county, Missouri, and for 
two years was the president of a leading mining company. In the fall of 1853 
he became a resident of Morris, Grundy county. He was elected a member of the 
state legislature of Illinois in the fall of 1856, and filled the position for 
two years, and then officiated as the clerk of the circuit court, filling a 
vacancy. During the civil war he was deputy United States marshal for Grundy 
county, and also United States commissioner. In 1865 he was elected the county 
judge, which position he held for twelve years, and then declined re-election, 
thereafter practicing law in Morris. He was an able lawyer and jurist, and a 
man of sterling qualities.



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Source:  Biographical and Genealogical Record of La Salle and Grundy County, 
Illinois, Volume 11, Chicago, 1900, p618

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