James was born in August 1831. He married while in Canada or the United States. His wife died of cholera after four years of marriage. James and his wife had no children.
James emigrated to the United States from Canada sometime between 1858 and 1860. He built sewers in Chicago.
In his old age James lived with his niece Grace Burns Landers. The children of James's nephew John Burns recounted how James terrified them whenever they visited the home of their aunt Grace Burns Landers. At the first sight of the children James would race out of the house brandishing his shillelagh and threatening to beat the children. His niece Grace would have to intervene saying "Jimmy, Jimmy, those are Johnnie's children!" Apparently James did not like children, so it is probably just as well that he never had any.
James emigrated to the United States from Canada sometime between 1858 and 1860. He built sewers in Chicago.
In his old age James lived with his niece Grace Burns Landers. The children of James's nephew John Burns recounted how James terrified them whenever they visited the home of their aunt Grace Burns Landers. At the first sight of the children James would race out of the house brandishing his shillelagh and threatening to beat the children. His niece Grace would have to intervene saying "Jimmy, Jimmy, those are Johnnie's children!" Apparently James did not like children, so it is probably just as well that he never had any.
James was born in August 1831. He married while in Canada or the United States. His wife died of cholera after four years of marriage. James and his wife had no children.
James emigrated to the United States from Canada sometime between 1858 and 1860. He built sewers in Chicago.
In his old age James lived with his niece Grace Burns Landers. The children of James's nephew John Burns recounted how James terrified them whenever they visited the home of their aunt Grace Burns Landers. At the first sight of the children James would race out of the house brandishing his shillelagh and threatening to beat the children. His niece Grace would have to intervene saying "Jimmy, Jimmy, those are Johnnie's children!" Apparently James did not like children, so it is probably just as well that he never had any.
James emigrated to the United States from Canada sometime between 1858 and 1860. He built sewers in Chicago.
In his old age James lived with his niece Grace Burns Landers. The children of James's nephew John Burns recounted how James terrified them whenever they visited the home of their aunt Grace Burns Landers. At the first sight of the children James would race out of the house brandishing his shillelagh and threatening to beat the children. His niece Grace would have to intervene saying "Jimmy, Jimmy, those are Johnnie's children!" Apparently James did not like children, so it is probably just as well that he never had any.
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