Biographical Sketch of James G. A. League - Andrew County, Missouri >From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com) ********************************************************************** James G. A. League, a prosperous merechant of Fillmore, of the firm of J.G.A. League & Co., is a native of Mercer County, KY., born December 5, 1827. He is the second of eight children born to the marriage of Richard League and Susan Anderson. The former was a native of Penn- sylvania, but removed to Kentucky when a boy. He was a farmer, and an old time Henry Clay Whig. He died about 1847, at seventy-four year of age. The mother was a native of Kentucky. She died at the home of our subject, in Fillmore, in her sixty-second year. She was a member of the Christian Church. James G. A. received a common-school educa- tion. He labored on the farm in his boyhood, but at the age of eighteen years commenced learning the blacksmith's trade, at which he worked in his native county until 1854, then coming to Schuyler County, IL., where he followed his trade about eighteen months. In April, 1856, he came to Andrew County, MO., and stopping at Fillmore, he resumed his occupation. In the summer of 1880 he established his present business. The house does a good business, amounting annually to about $12,000 or $15,000. On April 22, 1850, he was united in marriage with Miss Maranda Massey, a native of Washington County, KY., and the daughter of Asa and Rhoda M. Massey. They have had nine children...three sons and six daughters...of whom three sons and two daughters are dead. In politics Mr. League is a Republican. He and wife are worthy members of the Christian Church.