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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

James R. FLANDERS, attorney at law, firm of HAGAR & FLANDERS, Joliet; was born Aug. 
27, 1846, in Plainfield, Will Co., IL, and is a son of Jason and Lucy FLANDERS. He 
attended the public schools of Plainfield, and the Northwestern College, located at 
Plainfield, until May 1864, working on a farm during vacations. On the 10th of May 
1864, he enlisted in Company C, 132d I. V. I., serving until Oct. 17, 1864. After 
his discharge from the army, he returned to school, and remained in school until 
the spring of 1867; he then entered the law office of Randall & Fuller, in Joliet, 
and read law until Oct. 1867; he then taught school in Henry Co., IL, until the 
spring of 1868; read law during the summer, and the following winter, again taught 
school at the same place. During the summer of 1869, he continued his law studies, 
and in September of that year, entered the Law Department of the University of 
Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he graduated in March 1871. He was admitted to the 
bar in Michigan, April 4, 1871, and to the bar of Illinois, June 20, 1871, and 
immediately began practice in Joliet. He was elected City Attorney of Joliet in 
the spring of 1873, and re-elected in the spring of 1874, and again elected in 
the spring of 1876. In November 1876, he was elected State's Attorney of Will 
County, which office he still holds. He was married to Miss Sarah A. ARNOLD, 
April 10, 1877.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.