Bio: James, Benjamin W. (1881)
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Surnames: James, Haines

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 561

BENJAMIN W. JAMES, of the law firm of James & Crosby, Wausau. Was born in Otsego, Columbia Co., April 2, 1847, where his parents still reside, having been among the first settlers of that county. He attended the common schools there, and afterward the State University at Madison, graduating from the college proper in 1872, and from the law school in 1873; after which he came directly to Wausau, and began the practice of his profession. He was married, in Lincoln, Ill., Sept, 15, 1873, to May Haines, who was born in Upper Stillwater, Me., Dec. 14, 1849. They have two sons, Benjamin W., Jr., and Allan. They lost one son, Stephen.