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, or "Tam" as he was known to all his friends, was born at The Dalles, Oregon, on April. He came by the name of Tam from his early youth because his older brother, Clifton, tried to call him Tom or Tommy, but instead said Tam or Tammy.

His father was Judge Lewis Linn McArthur, who served as a supreme court judge ( in favor of the Union. Harvey W. Scott, nationally-known editor of the Oregonian, said of Nesmith on the occasion of his death:

"Among the notable men of Oregon, James W. Nesmith, since the earliest settlement of the state, has held a leading place. He was a man of intelligence, unusual force of character, large individualism and originality, an excellent friend and citizen, withal, a true type of those representative Americans who laid the foundations of the empire in the West."