Biographical Sketch of James E. Stringer, Walnut Grove Township, Greene County, Missouri

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Mr. Stringer was born in Putnam County, Indiana, September 18, 1845.
His father, Col. Thomas M. Stringer, was a native of Kentucky, born in
1822, and is now a resident of Jasper County, this State.  His mother
was Miss Nancy Watkins, a native of North Carolina.  James E. was edu-
cated in the common schools of his native county, and at Thorntown,
Boone County, Indiana, where he attended college some fifteen months.
He studied law when he was about twenty years of age, but came West in
1866 and went into the real estate business at Fort Scott, Kansas.  He
removed to Lawrence County, Missouri, in 1868, and followed the same
business.  He came to Greene County in January, 1881, and has been one
of the leading spirits of Walnut Grove, dealing largely in real estate.
He enlisted in 1862 in the Federal Cavalry under Col. Wilson, and fou-
ght until his discharge in October, 1864.  He was with Gen. Thomas in
the campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta and back to Nashville.  Mr.
Stringer was married December 14, 1862, to Miss Georgie Alexander, a
native of Hart County, Kentucky.  Their union has been blest with three
children, two girls and a boy.

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