Biographical Sketch of James G. A. League - Andrew County, Missouri

>From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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James G. A. League, a prosperous merechant of Fillmore, of the firm of
J.G.A. League & Co., is a native of Mercer County, KY., born December
5, 1827.  He is the second of eight children born to the marriage of
Richard League and Susan Anderson.  The former was a native of Penn-
sylvania, but removed to Kentucky when a boy.  He was a farmer, and 
an old time Henry Clay Whig.  He died about 1847, at seventy-four year
of age.  The mother was a native of Kentucky.  She died at the home of
our subject, in Fillmore, in her sixty-second year.  She was a member
of the Christian Church.  James G. A. received a common-school educa-
tion.  He labored on the farm in his boyhood, but at the age of
eighteen years commenced learning the blacksmith's trade, at which he
worked in his native county until 1854, then coming to Schuyler County,
IL., where he followed his trade about eighteen months.  In April, 
1856, he came to Andrew County, MO., and stopping at Fillmore, he 
resumed his occupation.  In the summer of 1880 he established his
present business.  The house does a good business, amounting annually
to about $12,000 or $15,000.  On April 22, 1850, he was united in
marriage with Miss Maranda Massey, a native of Washington County, KY.,
and the daughter of Asa and Rhoda M. Massey.  They have had nine
children...three sons and six daughters...of whom three sons and two
daughters are dead.  In politics Mr. League is a Republican.  He and
wife are worthy members of the Christian Church.
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