Biographical Sketch of James Duffey, Johnson County, Missouri,
Post Oak Township.

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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James Duffey, an industrious and capable, young farmer and stockman of
Post Oak township, is one of Johnson county's best and most intelligent
citizens and agriculturists.  He was born in 1876 in Topeka, Kansas, a
son of Paul and Emily Duffey, who were formerly of Wisconsin.  Mr. 
Duffey received a good common school education and early in life began
working for himself on the farm.  In 1904, he came to Johnson county,
Missouri and purchased one hundred eleven acres of land in Post Oak
township.  The place was in very poor shape at the time of the purchase
but Mr. Duffey is an ambitious worker and he immediately began to build
up the land by sowing grass and raising stock.  He has been successful
to a remarkable degree and the Duffey farm has increased in value three
fold since he came to it.  He sold seed corn to the men, who tried to
discourage him in buying the farm, telling him that nothing would grow
on the place.  Mr. Duffey advocates deep plowing, a method he pursues,
and he has seventy-five acres of land in corn and twenty-five acres in
oats.  He devotes much attention to stock raising, handling Durham
cattle and Poland china hogs.  In planting grain, James Duffey furrows
the field and plants in the trenches and he has had uniform success,
obtaining annually good yields.  He believes firmly in the utility of
the silo and each year fills one and has plenty of silage during the
winters.  In 1893, James Duffey and Susie May Schute were united in
marriage.  Mrs. Duffey is the daughter of George Schute, of Kansas.  To
Mr. and Mrs. Duffey have been born five children: Zenius, Winnie,
Gladys, Joseph and Harold.  All the children are at home with their 
parents.  In everything James Duffey undertakes, he confides in his
sons and takes them into partnership with him.  He is doing his best
to arouse their interest in the farm and has made friends and comrades
of them, encouraging them in their work, in their ambitions to have
something of their own.  Joseph had a fine pig last year, 1917, given
him by his father and the other boys had fourteen acres of land in
corn.  They planned to purchase an automobile with the proceeds from 
their corn crop and Mr. Duffey promised them that if they should not
be able to sell enough corn to pay for the car he would help them, and
James Duffey never breaks a promise made to his children.  Mr. Duffey
is pursuing a well defined course in an endeavor to teach the boys that
the farmer aiming to have a profitable business must understand many
things about plants and animals, for without a knowledge of their 
nature, their habits, and their needs he may labor year after year
making only a halfway success of his work, that it is easy to waste
the good things Nature has provided and easy to increase the ordinary
production from the land, if one only knows how.  If James Duffey 
should fail utterly as a farmer and stockman, his life will not have
been lived in vain, for he is a making a splendid success as father of
one of the finest families in Johnson county.  Mr. and Mrs. Duffey are
valued members of the Latter Day Saints church.

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