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JAMES A. EWING, merchant, post office Walker’s Mills, was born in this county in 1844, and is a direct descendant from Squire James Ewing, the pioneer of the name, who settled in Allegheny county. Alexander, the second of the five sons born to James Ewing, was a farmer, and married Martha Larimer, daughter of James Larimer, becoming the father of ten children. James, the second son, was born in 1802, near the present town of Mansfield, on the farm now owned by Mr. Hodgson. He was by trade a saddler, but on account of ill health abandoned that calling and worked on a farm given him by his father. He married Hannah Calohan, daughter of Thomas and Mary Hamminger, of this county, and they had seven children, three of whom are now living: Mary Ann (who died Sept. 14, 1888, in the fifty-fourth year of her age), Patterson (deceased), Martha Jane (now Mrs. Covey), John K. (a soldier, killed at Spottsylvania Court House), Hannah (Mrs. Cherry, now deceased), James A. and Elizabeth J. (now Mrs. Manior). The father of these children died Dec. 26, 1846; the mother Aug. 12, 1888, in the seventy-ninth year of her age. Up to the last she was remarkable for her intelligence and memory, and kind, loving disposition.

James A. was educated at the public schools, and has, since 1866, been engaged in the mercantile business at his present place. The post office has been at his store for twenty-two years, during seven of which he has been postmaster. Previous to engaging in his present business he resided with his mother on the farm. They now own one hundred acres, part of the first purchase made by Squire James Ewing. Mr. Ewing is a republican.