James McStimpson

James McStimpson, born in Allegany county, N\ Y., in 1825, is the son of Luther and Amy (Daney) McStimpson, natives of Massachusetts, who moved to New York state, where both died. James was raised on the farm there until seventeen years of age, when he migrated westward and settled for a time in this township; moving to St. Louis, Mo., in 1844; returned to Stark in 1846, and with the exception of two years in Henry county, has resided here ever since. In 1855 he purchased eighty acres of his present farm. He married Miss Sarah, daughter of Squire Parrish, as related in this chapter and marriage record. This lady is an old member of the Baptist Church—it is thought, of the old Fahrenheit Church. Politically, her husband belongs to the Greenback Labor party.