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HISTORY Of BUCKS COUNTY. 



had one son, Abiah R., who married 

 Josephine Leavitt and is now livin<,' in 

 Doylestown township. A sketch ot 

 their only son Wj'nne James, Esq., will 

 follow. Nathan James, third son of Isaac 

 and Sarah (Thomas) James, born 1754, 

 died 1845, niarried Sarah Dungan, and 

 had four children, i. John D., for many 

 years Court Crier, married Sarah Cline, 

 and had Elizabeth who married Ashcr 

 Cox, Nathan C, a life long member of 

 the Bucks County bar, Sarah, who mar- 

 ried Jacob Shade, and Henrietta. 2. Ann, 

 or Nancy, married Jesse Callender. 3. 

 Joseph, married, Martha Mann, and had 

 Miranda, who married Abiah J. Riale, 

 Wilhelmina, Charles, Joseph, Louisa, 

 and Susan. 4. Simon, married Mary 

 Meredith. 



Benjamin youngest son of Isaac and 

 Sarah (Thomas) James, born 1766, died 

 1854, was a farmer and resided in New 

 Britain township. He married Ann or 

 Nancy Williams, daughter of Benjamin 

 Williams. She died in 1838. Their chil- 

 dren were: i. Uslega, married Edward 

 Roberts; 2. Isaac W., married Ann Mere- 

 dith; 3. Abiah, married Charlotte Aa- 

 ron; 4. Thomas C. never married; 5. 

 Elizabeth M., died unmarried; 6. Sarah 

 Maria, married (first) Hervey Mathias, 

 (second) John G. Mann; 7. Abel, died 

 unmarried; 8. Silas H. died immarried; 

 9. Oliver P., M. D., and two daughters 

 who died 3'oung. 



HOWARD I. JAMES, Esq., of Bristol, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania, senior member 

 of the firm of Gilkeson & James, is the sec- 

 ond son of Eugene and Martha A. (Riale) 

 James, of Doylestown township, whose an- 

 cestry is given on other pages of this work, 

 and was born on his father's farm in Doyles- 

 town township. He was educated at the 

 public schools and Doylestown Seminary, 

 and read law with his brother, Henry A. 

 James, Esq., and was admitted to the Bucks 

 county bar May 9, 1892. He' opened an 

 office at Bristol, Bucks county, and began 

 the practice of his profession, forming a 

 partnershipwith his brother Henry A., who 

 had an office at Doylestown. In 1898 he 

 formed a co-partnership with Hon. B. t. 

 Gilkeson, of Bristol, under the firm name 

 of Gilkeson & James. This firm was for 

 many years the leading one at the local 

 bar, and did an immense amount of legal 

 business, the routine work of which de- 

 volved largely upon Mr. James. At the 

 death of Mr. Gilkeson, in 1904, Mr. James 

 continued the business for the family, and 

 on the admission of B. F. Gilkeson, Jr., to 

 the bar about a year later, he became a 

 member of the firm, the old firm name of 

 Gilkeson & James being continued. Mr. 

 James has been a successful practitioner, 

 and is one of the leaders among the younger 

 members of the bar, and highly respected 

 by his fellow attorneys. 



WYNNE JAMES, lawyer and real es- 

 tate agent, Doylestown, was born No- 

 vember 2, 1865, in Doylestown town- 

 ship, on a part of the plantation that 

 had been in the tenure of his direct an- 

 cestors for over a century, and where 

 his father, grandfather and great-grand- 

 father were born. He comes of the good 

 old James stock. His great-great-grand- 

 father Abel James, through his matern- 

 al grandmother, was second lieutenant 

 of Captain William Pugh's company, 

 Fourth Battalion of Pennsylvania militia,^ 

 and saw active service in 1777 under 

 Lieutenant Colonel William Roberts. 

 Several other members of the family 

 were also in the service, among them 

 John James and Isaac James, who served 

 under Captain Henr}' Darrah, in the bat- 

 talion of Lieutenant Colonel (afterward 

 General) John Lacey, the former being 

 a brother to Abiah James, the great- 

 grandfather of the subject of this 

 sketch. Abiah James was also a mem- 

 ber of the militia. 



Abiah R. James, the father of the sub- 

 ject of this sketch, as before stated, was 

 born on the old homestead in Doyles- 

 town township, formerly New Britain, 

 being the son of Benjamin W. James 

 and Elizabeth Black, the former being 

 a son of Abiah James and Rachel Will- 

 iams, and the latter a granddaughter of 

 Abel James and .Elizabeth Barton. Abiah 

 R. was educated in a school established 

 on the home farm by his father, and 

 where many prominent men were edu- 

 cated under the tuition of Professor 

 Clark, a graduate of Yale College, and 

 an eminent educator. Arriving at man- 

 hood he married Josephine Levitt, of 

 Memphis, Tennessee, whose family had 

 sought refuge in the north during the 

 trying scenes of the civil war in their 

 native state. At the death of his father 

 he inherited the farm that had descend- 

 ed from father to son for six generations, 

 and still owns it. Failing health in- 

 duced him to leave the farm and he and 

 his wife live retired in Doylestown town- 

 ship. He is a trustee of New Britain 

 Baptist church, of which his ancestors 

 have been members since its organiza- 

 tion. In politics he is a Democrat, but 

 has never sought nor held office. The 

 subject of this sketch is the only child. 



Wynne James was educated at the 

 public schools of his native township 

 and at Doylestown English and Classical 

 Seminary, where he graduated in 1885. 

 He tangh't school in Doylestown town- 

 ship for one year, in Southampton for 

 three years, and again in Doylestown 

 township for one year. In 1891 he en- 

 tered as a student at law in the office of 

 Nathan C. James, Esq., at Doylestown, 

 and was admitted to the bar in March, 

 1893, since which time he has practiced 

 law and conducted an extensive real 

 estate business, his practice being mainly 

 in the orphans' court and in connection 



