280                             HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

teaching in the schools of Toronto, Indiana ; Ruth C., who follows teach-
ing in the Brazil schools ; and George H., who pursued a course of study
in Chicago and is now attending the Indiana University. The parents are
well known in Brazil, where they have an extensive circle of friends,
occupying an enviable position in social circles, where true worth and
intelligence are received as the passports into good society. Professor
James belongs to Brazil Lodge No. 215, 1. 0. 0. K, and is one of its
most prominent reperesentives, having served as its treasurer for twenty—
three years. He and his wife are members of Mayflower Lodge No. 61,
of the Rebekah degree, and for thirteen years have heen members of the
Order of the Knights and Ladies of Honor. Mr. James is also connected
with Iron City- Encampment No. 118, of the Uniformed Rank of Odd
Fellows, and is in hearty sympathy with the principles and precepts of this
order, which has its basic element in mutual helpfulness and brotherly
kindness. He is a member of the Southern Indiana Teachers’ Associa-
tion and the Indiana State Teachers’ Association, of which he was vice-
president, and is ex-president of the Clay County Teachers’ Association.
At one time Mr. James was township assessor of Brazil. Keeping well
informed on the questions and issues of the day he has come to the con-
clusion that the platform of the Republican party embodies the hest ele-
ments of good government and therefore gives to it his support at the
polls. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church
and their many excellent qualities have gained them a most enviable
position in public regard. “Not the good that comes to us but the good
that comes to the world through us is the measure of our success,” and
judged by this, Professor James has been a most successful man. In
his chosen life work he has embodied the spirit of Kant who said “the
object of education is to train each individual to reach the highest per-
fection possible for him.” It is a widely acknowledged fact that the most
important work to which a man can direct his energies is that of teaching,
whether it be from the pulpit, from the lecture platform, or from the
school room. Its primary object is ever the same—-the development of
one’s latent powers that the duties of life may he bravely met and well
performed. Recognizing the responsibilities that devolve upon him, Pro-
fessor James has met every duty in life with a sense of conscientious
obligation and has always stood for high ideals in educational work.

    JAMES A. WINN is a retired farmer residing in Brazil but deriving
a gratifying income from a valuable property of four hundred acres of
rich and productive land in Clay county. He has lived in this county
since the days of the log cabin and the unimproved wilderness and has
watched its development as the pioneer settlers have converted their claims
into productive farms, while those who have concentrated their energies
upon industrial and commercial interests have doubled the towns and
cities. Mr. Winn is a native of Muskingum county, Ohio. He was born
September 29, 1845, of the marriage of Andrew and Abigal Jane (Rainer)
Winn. The father was born in New Jersey, August 1, 1806, while the
mother’s birth occurred in Orange county, New York, September 10,
1810 They were married in the latter county. Andrew Winn had spent
his boyhood days in New Jersey upon the farm of his father, Abraham
Winn, but after his marriage lived in Orange county, New York, for some
time, removing thence to Muskingum county, Ohio, where he remained