Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Matthew JAMES
2. Landon JAMES

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• Census: 1910, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

Born Feb. 14, 1899, in Brookline, Mass. American geographer. Professor at the University of Michigan (from 1934), Syracuse University (from 1945), and other universities.

James was a consultant to and director of various organizations concerned with Latin American geography and social development. From 1948 to 1953 he was a member of the National Research Council of the American Geophysical Union. In 1951, James became the president of the Association of American Geographers and in 1957 the president of the Council on Latin American Affairs. He wrote a monograph on Latin American geography and a series of text-books on geography for high school and college students.

Works
An Outline of Geography. New York, 1935.
Geography of Man, 2nd ed. Boston, 1959. (In collaboration with H. G. Kline.)
One World Divided: A Geographical Look at the Modern World. New York, 1964.
In Russian translation:
Latinskaia Amerika. Moscow, 1949.

Preston married Eileen WOODBURY. Eileen was born on 1 Oct 1910 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 26 Jun 2001 in Honolulu, Hawaii. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1900, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1910, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

By 1884, 17 Hereford St. (Boston) was the home of Frank Everett James and his wife, Gertrude (Woodworth) James. He was a banker with the firm of Richardson, Hill & Co. They were joined by Gertrude James’s father, Alfred Skinner Woodworth, a tea importer, and her brother, Arthur Vernon Woodworth, who was a clerk at Richardson, Hill & Co. Gertrude James’s mother, Anna Gorton (Grafton) Woodworth, had died in September of 1883. Also living with Frank and Gertrude James in 1885 was his brother, Edward Preston James, whose wife, Carrie (Piper) James, had died in December of 1883.
By 1886, Frank and Gertrude James had moved to Brookline, and Edward James had moved to Monadnock. Arthur Vernon Woodworth and his son, Alfred, continued to live at 17 Hereford in 1886. Arthur Woodworth remarried in October of 1886 and moved soon thereafter to the Hotel Vendôme. (Source: Back Bay Houses).

Frank married Gertrude WOODWORTH on 21 Nov 1878 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Gertrude (daughter of Alfred Skinner WOODWORTH and Anna Gorton GRAFTON) was born about 1858 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1910, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts

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• Census: 1850, Roxbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1880, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Occupation: 1880, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Tea Importer

Alfred married Anna Gorton GRAFTON on 23 Apr 1857 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Anna (daughter of Daniel G. GRAFTON) was born on 17 Jan 1838 in Massachusetts; died on 27 Sep 1883. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts