Vermilion County IL Archives Biographies.....BRACEWELL, James  February 1832 - November 18, 1902
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Author: H. W. Beckwith

History of Vermilion County Illinois, 1879, Beckwith, page 446

/Danville Township/ 	
James Bracewell

James Bracewell, Danville, justice of the peace, was born in what was then 
Mason county, Virginia, on the 29th of January, 1838; his parents are John and 
Minerva (Lewis) Bracewell; his father was from England, and was engaged in 
working in the coal mines. When Mr. Bracewell was very young his parents moved 
to Ohio, and here, when he was but seven years old, he entered the mines with 
his father. He remained in Ohio until 1865, when he came to Illinois and 
located in Danville. He first commenced to work in the mines of Chandler & 
Donlan. In 1873 he was elected justice of the peace, and in 1877 re¬elected to 
the same office, which he still holds; he is also commissioner of highways, to 
which office he was elected the same year. Mr. Brace¬well also holds the very 
important office of inspector of mines of Ver¬milion county, having been 
appointed in 1878. He married in Stark county, Ohio, on the 18th of May, 1857, 
Miss Mary Jones, of England. They have five children. Mr. Bracewell is agent 
for the Inman line of steamships.


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