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Bio: James, H. J. (1881) ----Source: History of Northern Wisconsin (Ashland County, Wis.) 1881, Page 72 H. J. James, lumberman, Ashland, was born in Portage Co., Ohio, Oct. 23, 1830. He lived at home until 1849, having learned the carpenter’s trade of his father. He then came West and located at Neenah. He first worked at this trade, and then went into lumbering and saw-milling. In 1878 he came here and bought a share in the saw-mill now owned by the Union Mill Company, of which he is president. The mill has a capacity of 60,000 feet of lumber and 30,000 shingles a day. In 1855, he was married to Miss Mary Scanton, of Ireland. They have five children - Joseph H., Edmund (now in Waco, Texas, farming), Jennie, Helen and Alice.
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