Frank A. James and Lois Homan

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Husband Frank A. James ^{1 2}

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           Born: 13 May 1871 - Nantucket, Nantucket Co, MA 3
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         Father: Henry F. James (1841-1911) 1 4 5
         Mother: Susan M. Hunter (      -Aft 1919) 1 3

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       Marriage: 1893 - ? Venango Co, PA

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Wife Lois Homan ³

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            AKA: Louise Holman 6
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         Father: Henry Homan (      -Bef 1919) 3
         Mother: Sarah Felton (      -Bef 1919) 3

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Frank A. James

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He was a native of Nantucket, MA, but passed his life in Venango County, PA. He grew up on the McCalmont place, and was given excellent educational advantages, but before leaving school he was also learning the details of the oil business under the able instruction of his father, whom he assisted from an early age. He helped to sink nearly all the wells on his father’s lease, and acquired an expert knowledge of drilling, which he followed almost exclusively for ten years on his own account, as a contractor, becoming familiar with every phase of exploitation work as practiced in this region, where he was closely associated with the business throughout his life. The lease on the McCalmont place was sold about 1916 to Harry Grant, but Mr. James retained other interests in the locality as a producer, and he also made oil investments in the fields of other States, including West Virginia and Ohio; his operations in Pennsylvania counties away from the home territory were mainly as a drilling contractor, but they were highly important in the opportunities afforded for enlarging his experience, his success as a producer was largely due to his comprehensive knowledge of oil lands gained while drilling. His chief recreation from business was hunting, for which he took a couple of weeks’ vacation every year.

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General Notes: Wife - Lois Homan

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from Cooperstown, PA

1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1044.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 614, 617.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 617.

4 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 650.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 614.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 179.