///. Memoriam. — U. P. James. 



IN MEMORIAM.— U. P. JAMES. 



i Read April 2, 1889, and ordered to be spread upon the Minutes.) 



Mr. President: — The committee appointed by you to prepare a 

 memorial of our associate, the late U. P. James, beg leave to offer 

 the following report. 



Uriah Pierson James, to whose memory a tribute of profound re- 

 spect is due from this Society, was born at Goshen, Orange County. 

 New York, on the 30th day of December, 181 1, and died at his home 

 near Loveland, Ohio, on February 25th, 1889. Thomas James, the 

 father of Uriah, died while the son was quite young. Rhoda Pierson, 

 the widowed mother, then moved with her family to Newark, New Jer- 

 sey, where the subject of this sketch and his older brother were put 

 to trades. The elder learned to be a printer, and Uriah was appren- 

 ticed to a shoemaker. He afterward worked in the manufacture of 

 patent leather. 



In 1831, the two brothers removed to Cincinnati, arriving August 

 6th, and soon started a stereotype foundry and printing office. 

 Afterward Uriah P. James commenced the publication of books : 

 and the business gradually grew to considerable proportions. The 

 place of business at that time was on Fifth Street, near Home, and 

 was afterward removed to Baker Street, between Walnut and Vine. 



About 1840, U. P. James opened a book-store on Pearl Street, 

 between Main and Walnut, and in 1847 formed a partnership with 

 his brother Joseph, under the name of J. A. & U. P. James, open- 

 ing a store at 167 Walnut Street, a site which is now a part of the 

 Gibson House. They remained in partnership until 1854, when 

 the firm dissolved, U. P. continuing the business for himself till 

 1886, when he finally retired in favor of his son, Davis L. James. 



In 1844, U. P. James was elected a member of the Western 

 Academy of Sciences, and from that time until the final dissolution 

 of the Academy he continued an active member, serving as Presi- 

 dent, Vice-President and Treasurer during a long course of years. 

 He was Treasurer of the Academy at the time its library, cabinet and 

 funds were transferred to the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



In 187 1, Mr. U. P. James published a Catalogue of the Fossils of 

 the Cincinnati Group collected in the vicinity of the city, embracing 



