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Date Posted: 18:56:10 07/30/02 Tue
Author: Linda
Subject: JAMES surname

Harry JAMES. born while family was travelling across the Oklahoma Territories July 23,1876. He left home at 9 years of age to make his own way in the world. It is believed his parents were named John H. and Mary E. James. The 1930 census shows his parents as born in Wisconsin. His birth state is listed as Oklahoma. Previous census reading state his parents birth states as "United States".

Harry was to have had other siblings. The surname BIRDSELL is listed on old research papers from 1960's; possible connections there. Harry was reputed to be a Texas or Arizona Ranger at one time. He served as a scout for Teddy Roosevelt during the S.A. War in the Phillipines....he did not enlist; only "went with a bunch of other men" to serve the cause with Roosevelt.

Harry moved to Wallace, Idaho in 1902. He likely came into town with the Great Northern Railway as he was said to have worked the railroad line from his youth. He was a brakeman in 1905 and in 1911 he was railroad master of the Yard. This was during the "Big Fire" of 1911 that burned half the town and thousands of acres of Idaho and Montana. By 1918 Harry was working for the County of Shoshone as a Deputy Sheriff in the Wallace and Burke mining areas. Ie retired from this job in 1923 and went to work as a guard and then a pumpman for the Hecla Mine. Harry died in 1960.

Harry James married "Ella" Rathjen who came to Wallace in August of 1902 with the Rev. Groves who was the new minister of the Epsicapol Church. They came from Brooklyn, New York...King Co. Ella was a nanny for the Rev. Groves family acording to family story. She had been a residentin the home of her cousin Berhard Seeman in the 1900 census of Brooklyn, New York. Her sister, May or Mayte came west later in about 1909 to stay. May was using the name May BUCK in the 1910 census. She later was married to John Joseph Thank. They lived in Sand Point, Bonner Co., Idaho for 38 years until her death in 1959.

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