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JAMES CASH 



A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. 



JAMES CASH, by whom the first two volumes of the 

 present work were chiefly written, was born on 14th 

 February, 1839, at Great Sankey, Warrington. He 

 was of humble parentage, and is said to have walked 

 when a child several miles each way daily to a school 

 at Warrington. The cottage in which he was born 

 was still standing in the summer of 1910, mostly 

 surrounded by fields, by the side of the high road 

 to Liverpool. 



On leaving school he commenced business life in a 

 lawyer's office, but soon joined the staff of the ' War- 

 rington Guardian,' residing at Warrington. In 1867 

 he left there for Manchester, on becoming connected 

 with the ' Manchester Guardian,' with which journal 

 he continued to be associated until his death, for 

 many years holding the position of Chief of the report- 

 ing staff, and residing in the neighbourhood of Sale, 

 Cheshire. In the year 1873 he published a little 

 book with the title : ' Where there's a Will there's a 

 Way, or Science in the Cottage ; an account of the 

 labours of Naturalists in humble life.' 



He married, in 1866, the eldest daughter of the 

 Rev. J. B. Johnstone, pastor of the Warrington Pres- 

 byterian Church. He died on 20th February, 1909, 

 leaving a widow, five sons, and two daughters. The 

 illness which took him away was the first serious one 



