James H. Maxwell

    James H. Maxwell is a native of Morgan County, Indiana; was born February 6, 1855, and is the only son of James and Eleanor Maxwell, natives of Dearborn County, Indiana. The grandfather of our subject was a native of Ireland, who at an early day emigrated to America, and reached Dearborn County, whence, in 1840, he moved to Morgan County, where he died in 1849, aged seventy-four years. James Maxwell, his son, was born in Dearborn County September 26, 1810, and there married to Eleanor Paden, with issue of the following children: Mary J. (deceased), Martha, Eliza A., Nancy E. (deceased), Prudence M., Nancy J. and James H. In 1839, he moved to Morgan County, and died October 30, 1865. Mrs. Maxwell is still living. James H. Maxwell, since the death of his father, has had charge of the homestead farm, which he is managing in addition to forty acres of his own. He is a very excellent and intelligent young gentleman, yet unmarried and a member of the Christian Church.

Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.