Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

John JAMES, coal office, Braidwood; was born in Scotland, and is the son of John and Mary 
(LAW) JAMES, of Scotland; father was a miner; when Mr. JAMES was about 9 years of age, he 
entered the coal mines, and has principally followed coal mining through life; in 1865, 
emigrated to America to Mercer Co., Penn., mining about one and a half years; thence to 
Braidwood in the fall of 1867; mined until 1869; then in the mercantile business until 
1873; thence to Cleveland three years, returned to Braidwood, and is now engaged in the 
company's coal office. Mr. JAMES is a National Greenback man in politics, and a member 
of the Presbyterian Church, and was married in 1864 to Miss Agnes CAMPBELL, of Scotland, 
by whom he has four children.