May 5, 1859

James A. Fathers was born in Chicago.

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“James A. Fathers was born in Chicago on May 5, 1859, and was but an infant when his parents removed to Janesville. He attended the public schools until he was fourteen years old, when he entered the woolen mills of F.”
1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 393 / book p. 886
Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.
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