Tipton-Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Thomas, James P. 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com April 9, 2007, 7:33 pm

Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   JAMES P. THOMAS, Justice of the Peace, is a native of Wayne County, Ind., and
is the son of Jesse and Nancy Thomas. When James P. was ten years of age, his
father died, and he lived on a farm with his uncle. In 1850, he came with his
mother to Tipton County, and the following year taught one term of school in
this county. He then returned to Wayne County, and worked on a farm until
August, 1855, when he returned to Tipton County and engaged in teaching and
farming twelve successive years. He purchased forty acres of land, and met with
good success in collecting property. Mr. Thomas enlisted February 28, 1862, in
Company K, Forty-seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and participated
in the battle at Riddle's Point and the siege of Fort Thompson. He served about
nine months, when he was discharged and returned home. He then engaged in
agricultural pursuits two years, when he sold his farm, came to Tipton County,
and embarked in the grocery business, where he remained fifteen years, when he
sold out. He is in comfortable circumstances, and owns a good residence in town.
Mr. Thomas was married, August 15, 1855, in Wayne County, Ind., to Miss
Elizabeth J. Lewis. They have a family of five children-Martha A., Lewis J.,
Sheridan, Mary and David V. Mr. Thomas was elected Justice of the Peace in
November, 1878, and was re-elected in 1882. He is identified with the Masonic
fraternity, and is one of its most active workers.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/tipton/bios/thomas944gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/

File size: 2.2 Kb