Biographical Sketch of James Herson, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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James Herson, of the St. James Hotel, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio,
March 31, 1852, and came to Daviess County, Missouri, in 1855, and
to St. Joseph in 1864.  He received a good education in Dr. Huffaker's
seminary, in Gallatin, Missouri, and commenced his eventful career as
hotel keeper while very young, occupying every position, from a waiter
boy to an accomplished landlord.  He became a favorite of the railroad
officials and the traveling public as the keeper of the Kansas Pacific
dining hall at Lawrence, Kansas, and at Hago, Colorado, where he re-
mained for several years.  He also was the popular clerk at the Otis
House, at Atchison, Kansas.  In all these positions he gained hosts
of friends by his kind and affiable manners and uniform courtesy to
all.  he conducted a restaurant in this city for two years.  At the
Exposition of 1880, in this city, he managed the main dining hall,
which he conducted with marked success, giving general satisfaction.
In October, 1880, he leased the old Heaton House, on Sixth Street and
changed its name to the St. James, and has opened a house which is a
credit to St. Joseph and its worthy proprietor.  He married Miss Mary
E. Fuller, in Atchison, Kansas, November 28, 1877.  They have two
children: Maud and James.

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