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Rh den; George,8 married Rebecca Weeks; to Sylvia,9 who married John James, Jr., and was the mother of Henry B. James.

Mr. James is the author of a volume entitled "Memories of the Civil War." In it he says: "I have often wondered how it happened that I, born of Quaker stock on my mother's side, should have had such a natural leaning toward scenes of adventure and conflict. It may well have been that I inherited it from the paternal side of the house." He adds, speaking of his grandfather, John James, Sr.: "During my childhood I often listened to his tales of warfare and bloodshed, and longed to be a man, that I might fight and avenge the wrongs inflicted on my devoted country in its earlier days. As I read of the War of the Revolution, I wished that I might have lived in those stirring days and done my part in creating the American nation." Mr. James desired to enlist among the first volunteers of the Union after the fall of Fort Sumter, but his father would not then consent. He enlisted November 2, 1861, just after his twentieth birthday, in Company B, First Battalion, afterwani the Thirty-second Massachusetts Infantry. He was mustered into the United States service November 27, 1861, and on December 3 was sent with his company to Fort W^arren, Boston Harbor, ' to guard prisoners of war, among them being General Buckner, Commodore Barron, Commissioners Mason and Slidell, and the Mayor and Chief of. Police of Baltimore. On May 25 Company B left Fort Warren for Washington. On July 4 the battalion of which this company was a part was assigned to the brigade of General Charles Griffin, division of General Morell, in Fitz John Porter's command, afterward known as the Fifth Army Corps. Mr. James was engaged in thirty-eight battles — Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, the Wilderness, and others. He was commissioned Sergeant in February, 1864, was wounded in a skirmish on the Boydton plank road March 30, 1865, and was in the Armory Square Hospital in Washington from April 2 to May 26, when he* was transferred to White Hall, on the Delaware River. He was able to leave the hospital July 6, and received an honorable discharge in Boston, July 18, 1865.

Mr. James is a past Senior Vice-Commander of William Logan Rodman Post, No. 1, G. A. R., of New Bedford, and has the esteem of all his comrades.

Mr. and Mrs. James have had four sons and one daughter, namely: Franklin Elliot, born May 29, 1869; W'illiam Edgar, born February 18, 1871; Clarence Henry, born February 7, 1872; Percy Clifton, born February 2, 1875; and Isabel Agnes, born October 19, 1881, died in infancy. The four sons were educated in the public schools of New Bedford, graduating from the high school, and are now in business in New Bedford. They are members of John A. Hawes Camp, No. 35, Sons of Veterans, of New Bedford. Franklin Elliot James married August 10, 1890, Helen E., daughter of Charles H. Giflford, the celebrated marine artist. They have one child, Isabel Ethel; born December 13, 1896. William Edgar James married June 3, 1896, Grace Eaton Thompson, of New Bed- ford. They have one child, Miriam Earle, born September' 4, 1902. Clarence Henry James married June 24, 1896, Mary Eleanor Gibbs, of New Bedford, who died April 20, 1899, leaving one child, Marjorie Campbell, born July 7, 1897.

Percy Clifton James married February 1, 1896, Nellie May Benjamin. They have had four children, namely: Lucy Marion and Marion Leonard, who both died in infancy; Sylvia Kempton, born November 21, 1899; and Lucy May, born April 3, 1903.

ARTHA SEAVEY HOYT is a native of East Machias, Me., one of the sister villages planted a century and a half ago on the banks of the two rivers flowing through the Machias valley, by a company of brave and stalwart men drawn thither by the beauty of the, scenery, the broad marshes covered with luxuriant grasses, and the stately forests of pine. Rising far back in the lakes of the woods, the two rivers mingle