Info from: Cheryl Cartwright
Henry Ammon James, B.A. 1874.
Born April 24, 1854, in Baltimore, Md.
Died August 1, 1929, in East Hampton, N Y.
Father, Henry James, a lumber merchant in firm of Henry James & Company; also engaged in banking; son of Nathaniel Emmes and Betsy (Ingersoll) James, of Truxton, N. Y.
Mother, Amelia Belknap (Cate) James; daughter of Ammon and Eunice (Belknap) Cate, of Catonsville, Md.
Yale relatives include three nephews: Henry James, '03, Allan McLane, Jr, '16, and Oliver B. James, '18.
Prepared for college under private tutors. Second Berkeley Premium for Latin composition Sophomore year; oration appointments Junior and Senior years; member Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Delta Beta Xi (Alpha Sigma Phi), Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones. Studied at University of Jena 1874-75 and at University of Berlin 1875-76; attended Yale School of Law 1876-78 (LLB. 1878; Jewell Prize Junior year, John Addison Porter Prize and honors Senior year); practiced law in Baltimore in office of Luther M. Reynolds for about a year and a half after graduation from the Law School and then spent over a year in rest and travel on account of ill health; in 1881 became a clerk in law office of Edward Heaton, '69, in New York City; subsequently managing clerk in law office of Anderson & Howland, of which Henry E. Howland, '54, was a member; from 1884 to 1901 shared an office with Howard Mansfield, '71, and Albert Symington, '83; had since practiced independently, devoting much of his time to the management of certain estates which devolved to his care; Author: Communism in America (1879).
Married September 21, 1891, in East Hampton, Laura Brevoort, daughter of William Ellery Sedgwick (B.A. Harvard 1846) and Constance Irving (Brevoort) Sedgwick.
Children Dorothy, the widow of George G. Haven, '87, and [William] Ellery Sedgwick, '17 Mrs. James died November 1, 1907. Death due to a pulmonary hemorrhage.
Buried in Old West End Cemetery, East Hampton.
Survived by daughter, son, four sisters, Mrs Harry White, of New York City, Mrs Francis Newton, of East Hampton, Mrs Allan McLane, of Garrison, Md, and Mrs John H. Johnson, of Chase, Md, and a brother, Norman James, '90 His brother, Walter B. James, '79, died in 1927, and his youngest brother, Robert C. James, '94, in 1896.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1929-30.pdf
Henry Ammon James, B.A. 1874.
Born April 24, 1854, in Baltimore, Md.
Died August 1, 1929, in East Hampton, N Y.
Father, Henry James, a lumber merchant in firm of Henry James & Company; also engaged in banking; son of Nathaniel Emmes and Betsy (Ingersoll) James, of Truxton, N. Y.
Mother, Amelia Belknap (Cate) James; daughter of Ammon and Eunice (Belknap) Cate, of Catonsville, Md.
Yale relatives include three nephews: Henry James, '03, Allan McLane, Jr, '16, and Oliver B. James, '18.
Prepared for college under private tutors. Second Berkeley Premium for Latin composition Sophomore year; oration appointments Junior and Senior years; member Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Delta Beta Xi (Alpha Sigma Phi), Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones. Studied at University of Jena 1874-75 and at University of Berlin 1875-76; attended Yale School of Law 1876-78 (LLB. 1878; Jewell Prize Junior year, John Addison Porter Prize and honors Senior year); practiced law in Baltimore in office of Luther M. Reynolds for about a year and a half after graduation from the Law School and then spent over a year in rest and travel on account of ill health; in 1881 became a clerk in law office of Edward Heaton, '69, in New York City; subsequently managing clerk in law office of Anderson & Howland, of which Henry E. Howland, '54, was a member; from 1884 to 1901 shared an office with Howard Mansfield, '71, and Albert Symington, '83; had since practiced independently, devoting much of his time to the management of certain estates which devolved to his care; Author: Communism in America (1879).
Married September 21, 1891, in East Hampton, Laura Brevoort, daughter of William Ellery Sedgwick (B.A. Harvard 1846) and Constance Irving (Brevoort) Sedgwick.
Children Dorothy, the widow of George G. Haven, '87, and [William] Ellery Sedgwick, '17 Mrs. James died November 1, 1907. Death due to a pulmonary hemorrhage.
Buried in Old West End Cemetery, East Hampton.
Survived by daughter, son, four sisters, Mrs Harry White, of New York City, Mrs Francis Newton, of East Hampton, Mrs Allan McLane, of Garrison, Md, and Mrs John H. Johnson, of Chase, Md, and a brother, Norman James, '90 His brother, Walter B. James, '79, died in 1927, and his youngest brother, Robert C. James, '94, in 1896.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1929-30.pdf
Info from: Cheryl Cartwright
Henry Ammon James, B.A. 1874.
Born April 24, 1854, in Baltimore, Md.
Died August 1, 1929, in East Hampton, N Y.
Father, Henry James, a lumber merchant in firm of Henry James & Company; also engaged in banking; son of Nathaniel Emmes and Betsy (Ingersoll) James, of Truxton, N. Y.
Mother, Amelia Belknap (Cate) James; daughter of Ammon and Eunice (Belknap) Cate, of Catonsville, Md.
Yale relatives include three nephews: Henry James, '03, Allan McLane, Jr, '16, and Oliver B. James, '18.
Prepared for college under private tutors. Second Berkeley Premium for Latin composition Sophomore year; oration appointments Junior and Senior years; member Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Delta Beta Xi (Alpha Sigma Phi), Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones. Studied at University of Jena 1874-75 and at University of Berlin 1875-76; attended Yale School of Law 1876-78 (LLB. 1878; Jewell Prize Junior year, John Addison Porter Prize and honors Senior year); practiced law in Baltimore in office of Luther M. Reynolds for about a year and a half after graduation from the Law School and then spent over a year in rest and travel on account of ill health; in 1881 became a clerk in law office of Edward Heaton, '69, in New York City; subsequently managing clerk in law office of Anderson & Howland, of which Henry E. Howland, '54, was a member; from 1884 to 1901 shared an office with Howard Mansfield, '71, and Albert Symington, '83; had since practiced independently, devoting much of his time to the management of certain estates which devolved to his care; Author: Communism in America (1879).
Married September 21, 1891, in East Hampton, Laura Brevoort, daughter of William Ellery Sedgwick (B.A. Harvard 1846) and Constance Irving (Brevoort) Sedgwick.
Children Dorothy, the widow of George G. Haven, '87, and [William] Ellery Sedgwick, '17 Mrs. James died November 1, 1907. Death due to a pulmonary hemorrhage.
Buried in Old West End Cemetery, East Hampton.
Survived by daughter, son, four sisters, Mrs Harry White, of New York City, Mrs Francis Newton, of East Hampton, Mrs Allan McLane, of Garrison, Md, and Mrs John H. Johnson, of Chase, Md, and a brother, Norman James, '90 His brother, Walter B. James, '79, died in 1927, and his youngest brother, Robert C. James, '94, in 1896.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1929-30.pdf
Henry Ammon James, B.A. 1874.
Born April 24, 1854, in Baltimore, Md.
Died August 1, 1929, in East Hampton, N Y.
Father, Henry James, a lumber merchant in firm of Henry James & Company; also engaged in banking; son of Nathaniel Emmes and Betsy (Ingersoll) James, of Truxton, N. Y.
Mother, Amelia Belknap (Cate) James; daughter of Ammon and Eunice (Belknap) Cate, of Catonsville, Md.
Yale relatives include three nephews: Henry James, '03, Allan McLane, Jr, '16, and Oliver B. James, '18.
Prepared for college under private tutors. Second Berkeley Premium for Latin composition Sophomore year; oration appointments Junior and Senior years; member Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Delta Beta Xi (Alpha Sigma Phi), Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones. Studied at University of Jena 1874-75 and at University of Berlin 1875-76; attended Yale School of Law 1876-78 (LLB. 1878; Jewell Prize Junior year, John Addison Porter Prize and honors Senior year); practiced law in Baltimore in office of Luther M. Reynolds for about a year and a half after graduation from the Law School and then spent over a year in rest and travel on account of ill health; in 1881 became a clerk in law office of Edward Heaton, '69, in New York City; subsequently managing clerk in law office of Anderson & Howland, of which Henry E. Howland, '54, was a member; from 1884 to 1901 shared an office with Howard Mansfield, '71, and Albert Symington, '83; had since practiced independently, devoting much of his time to the management of certain estates which devolved to his care; Author: Communism in America (1879).
Married September 21, 1891, in East Hampton, Laura Brevoort, daughter of William Ellery Sedgwick (B.A. Harvard 1846) and Constance Irving (Brevoort) Sedgwick.
Children Dorothy, the widow of George G. Haven, '87, and [William] Ellery Sedgwick, '17 Mrs. James died November 1, 1907. Death due to a pulmonary hemorrhage.
Buried in Old West End Cemetery, East Hampton.
Survived by daughter, son, four sisters, Mrs Harry White, of New York City, Mrs Francis Newton, of East Hampton, Mrs Allan McLane, of Garrison, Md, and Mrs John H. Johnson, of Chase, Md, and a brother, Norman James, '90 His brother, Walter B. James, '79, died in 1927, and his youngest brother, Robert C. James, '94, in 1896.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1929-30.pdf
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