City: Decaturville
ENGLAND, James A., lawyer; born Sardis, Tenn., Feb. 6, 1850; Irish descent; son of John M. and Rebecca (Hanna) ENGLAND; father, was a physician; paternal grandparents A. R. and Martha (Middleton) ENGLAND; maternal grandparents , James A. and Ellen (Courtney) HANNA; educated in the local district schools of Tenn. and Illinois; began life as a ranchman, later farmed in Hunt Co., Texas, when a boy sent by his mother to Illinois where he attended school and worked on a farm, later returning to his native home; by intervals of work and study he secured an education; read law and was licensed to practice at Decaturville, Tenn. March 1877; now interested in banking and farming Decaturville, Tenn.; formerly vice-president, later president of Decatur County Bank, having Court Decaturville, Tenn.
