Biography of: James W. Eden McCracken County, Kentucky

Source; Biographical Sketches from, "Kentucky, History of the State"
Main Author; William Henry Perrin 1887
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Submitted by: Vera Burnham vburnham@metrocast.net
Date: April 21, 2002
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James W. Eden was born in Mayfield, Graves co., Ky., May 2, 1851. His
Grandfather was an officer in the British Navy settled in North Carolina
from whence he removed to Kentucky and settled in Muhlenberg county, where
he died. In his family was a son James G. Eden who was born in North
Carolina and who in early life settled in Graves County, Ky., where he
married Miss Mary Talbert, who was a Virginian by birth but of English
ancestry.They had seven children- James W., whose name heads this sketch 
being the sixth. James G. Eden was a merchant and later a farmer, and 
finally located in McCracken County, on a farm long known as Eden's Hill,
where in 1871 he died and where his widow died on May 27, 1884. James W.
Eden was educated chiefly in Paducah, Ky., studied law under Judge Bigger of
that city, and in 1878 entered the law department of the university of Ann
Arbor. Mich. where he graduated in July 1879. He then established an office
in Paducah for the practice of his profession but soon became associated
with J.W. Bloomfield with whom practiced two years, terminating August 1882
at which time Mr Eden was elected to the office of County Attorney for
McCracken County. From 1876 to 1878 he served the county as commishioner
of schools. He is a member of the K. Of H.