Andrew Jackson James

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Found at a Coffey Co KS website, a bio of Andrew J. JAMES: ANDREW J. JAMES, farmer, Section 24, P. O. Waverly, was born in Montgomery County, Va., and at the age of five years moved with his parents to Rush County, Ind., and lived in that State until 1860; moved to Illinois, and lived in that State six years and came to Kansas in 1866. He located in Rock Creek Township, near Waverly, in Coffey County, and engaged in farming. Mr. James was married in Johnson County, Ind., in 1844, to Miss Sophia Cunningham, a native of Indiana. They have eight children - Joshua, David, John, George, William, Frank, Ephraim and Sarah. He has been Town Trustee and Town Treasurer, and was recently elected to the office of County Commissioner. He has been identified with the Republican party since 1860.