"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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HON. JAMES J. MAXWELL, was born in Morgan County, Ind., February 27, 1839,
and is the eldest of the family of John and Catherine Maxwell, natives of
Ireland. The grandfather of our subject was a native of England, who
emigrated to Ireland, and thence, in 1805, to America, where he settled at
Germantown, Columbia County, N.Y. About 1813, he moved to Lebanon, Ohio,
thence to Dearborn County, Ind., and finally, in 1842, to Morgan County,
where death laid claim to him. He was by trade a weaver, and that was his
life-long business. His family comprised seven children--Robert, James,
William, Henry, Nancy, Ellen and John. John Maxwell was born in County
Down, Ireland, July 24, 1805, and was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1837, to
Catherine Graham, born in 1812. After marriage, Mr. Maxwell located near
Lawrenceburg, Ind., and in 1838 moved to Morgan County, purchased land and
settled in Washington Township, where he died February, 1872. His family
was as follows: Susan (deceased), Jane (deceased), Susanna, John
(deceased), Robert F., Catherine and James J. James J. Maxwell was educated
in the district schools in part, but which education he completed at
Cincinnati. February 14, 1866, in this county, he married Cynthia A.,
daughter of John and Lucy Hodges, and born January 18, 1848, a union which
gave being to eight children--Josie, Minnie (deceased), Otto (deceased),
Franklin R., Howard, Nora (deceased), Mittie M. and Don. Mr. Maxwell was
elected to the Legislature in 1874, a position which he filled with honor.
He is a highly respected citizen and a member of the Christian Church.
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