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From History of Muscatine County, Iowa, from the earliest settlements to the present time; (1911)
WARREN W. JAMES.
Among the young men who have made a fair start as agriculturists in Muscatine county and give promise of increasing usefulness as the years pass in a business that calls for energy, judgment and the close attention of an intelligent mind is Warren W. James. He is now in his twenty-second year and, having been reared under the most favorable conditions for obtaining a thorough knowledge of farming, he was well prepared upon arriving at manhood to assume responsibilities generally undertaken by those much older than himself. He was born in Wapsinonoc township, June 30, 1889, and comes of a family well known in Muscatine county, being a son of Gad and Harriet (Kile) James, a record of whom appears elsewhere in this work.
Warren W. James possessed good opportunities of education, first attending the common schools and then becoming a student in the high school, where he pursued advanced studies adapted to develop clear reasoning and thinking. He has found time also to read the standard books and is well informed regarding the progress of America and the world. At the age of twenty he began farming upon his own account by renting a part of the old homestead for one year and he acquitted himself so creditably that he now owns one hundred and sixty acres, which he manager with good judgment so that it yields handsome returns. He engaged in general farming, also in raising hogs and cattle, which he sends to the market in prime condition, and is recognized by experienced farmers of the neighborhood as a young man of unusual promise both in business and in the discharge of the duties of intelligent citizenship.
On the 31st of August, 1910, Mr. James was united in marriage to Miss Beulah May Ayers, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, and a daughter of Spencer and Rose Ayers, now living on a farm in Goshen township. There were two children in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Ayers, the son being Roy, who is still at home.
Politically Mr. James is in thorough sympathy with the republican party, and he gives to its candidates his undivided support. He and his estimable wife are members of the Methodist church and are active workers in the promotion of kindly and generous social relations in the community with which their interests are closely identified. The friends of Mr. James prophecy for him a career which will reflect credit not only upon himself but upon all with whom he is associated.
As printed in History of Muscatine County, Iowa, from the earliest settlements to the present time; (1911). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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