Biographical Sketch of James W. Fuson, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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James W. Fuson was born in Union county, Illinois, on the 31st of
December, 1861, and in 1869 located with his parents in Wright county,
Missouri.  He received a common school education, and when about 
eighteen years of agen entered a drug store in Hartville as clerk,
which occupation he followed for two years.  He then spent about two
years as a traveling salesman, but in 1884 located at Seymour, and
engaged in the hardware business in company with P. S. Wilks, the style
of the firm being Fuson & Wilks.  Mr. Fuson afterward purchased Mr.
Wilks' interest, and the firm is now known as J. W. Fuson & Co.  Mr. 
Fuson erected his present business hous in the fall of 1886, and he
carries a large and choice line of heavy and shelf hardware, also
farming implements, harness, saddles, etc.  He was married here on the
12th of June, 1887, to Miss Tempa S. McMahan, a daughter of W. T. 
McMahan, whose sketch appears in this work.  She was born, reared and
educated in Webster county, and is the mother of one daughter, Opal W.
Mrs. Fuson is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and Mr.
Fuson is a Master Mason, and is Senior Warden of his lodge.  He is also
city treasurer, and is considered one of the enterprising and success-
ful young business men of the county.

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