James Thomas From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 1025.

TOWN OF GLEN HAVEN

JAMES THOMAS, farmer; P. O. Beetown; born in 1821 in Cornwall, England; was a son of Hannibal and Elizabeth Thomas; lived there for twenty-five years, and, in 1846, he emigrated to the beautiful and fertile regions of America; located at Hazel Green, Grant Co., Wis., for one year; thence to Racine Co. for four years; thence to Beetown, where he lives at the present time. He married in 1866, Miss Susan Richman, a daughter of Seth Richman, of Ohio; had one child, deceased - James N. He has 1,650 acres of land. Has been Pathmaster one term, School Director one term. Is a member of the M. E. Church. Politics, Democrat. Has been a prosperous farmer, and one of the luckiest miners of the age.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.