City: Morristown
LOTSPEICH, James Newton, real estate dealer and promoter; born in Greene Co., Tenn., Feb. 20, 1850; German and Irish descent; son of Amos Wells and Mary R. (Easterly) LOTSPEICH; father was a farmer; paternal grandparents James and Malinda (Farnsworth) LOTSPEICH, maternal grandparents Jacob and Sarah (Whittinberg) EASTERLY; graduated from Emory & Henry College, Va., A.B., June, 1878; began his business career as a farmer and was for 18 years a traveling minister in the Holston Conference M.E. Church, South; has contributed several articles to the press and is the author of “The Billionaire” campaign song of 1908; real estate and bond broker and promoter of mines; now engaged in sale of some Western mines.
