James A. Black Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Muscoda, Biographical Sketches, Page 962

JAMES A. BLACK, Muscoda; was born in Montgomery Co., Va., in 1837, on the farm 
of his parents, Alexander and Elizabeth (McDonald) Black, who were both natives 
of Virginia, and whose ancestors were among the earliest settlers of that State; 
his great-grandfather was born in the North of Ireland, but emigrated to 
Virginia when quite young. Mr. Black came to this State with his parents in 
1854; they bought and located upon a farm in Richland Co., where his father died 
in 1874, aged 74, being born in 1800; his mother died six years later, 1880, 
also 74 years of age. Mr. Black engaged in farming and milling in Richland Co., 
and during the year 1871, built the Ithaca Mills, which he conducted for eight 
years, which he then exchanged for a farm in this town, upon which he moved and 
lived for two years, when he moved his family to this village. Mr. Black has 
always been in active life, and has accumulated an estate by his own persevering 
industry.