James Thomas 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 Glen Haven, Biographical Sketches, Page 1025

JAMES THOMAS, farmer; P. O. Beetown; born in 1821 in Cornwall, England: was a 
son of Hannibal and Elizabeth Thomas lived there for twenty-five years, and, in 
1846, he emigrated to the beautiful and fertile regions of America; located at 
Hazel Green, Grant Co., Wis., for one year; thence to Racine Co. for four years; 
thence to Beetown, where he lives at the present time.  He married in 1866, Miss 
Susan Richman, a daughter of Seth Richman, of Ohio; had one child, deceased – 
James N.  He has 1,650 acres of land.  Has been Pathmaster one term, School 
Director one term.  Is a member of the M. E. Church.  Politics, Democrat.  Has 
been a prosperous farmer, and one of the luckiest miners of the age.