My half brother (Tom JAMES) died in California in the year 1926.  The cause of his death was heart trouble.  His occupation was a mine expert on metals.  He was versed in Geology.  During the World War I, he was employed by the U. S. Government to search for rare metals in the U. S. and Mexico.  In the year 1880, he married an English girl named Carrie GOUGE.  The marriage took place in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania.  The three years previous to this he had been with me in Leadville, Colorado, a silver mining town.  He returned to Leadville, took his wife with him and they lived there a short while.

Then his wife returned to Mahanoy City, and lived with her relatives for a while.  She received help from her husband to pay her expenses.  Then it stopped.  About this time she gave birth to a son and named Arthur C. JAMES.  I lived in Mahanoy City then and her relatives, with whom I was not very well acquainted, came to my home and wanted information about Carrie's husband; where he was and why he quit corresponding, and that she needed assistance.  They seemed to be angry and were under the impression that I knew where he was and the reason why he quit sending her money to provide for her.  I told them he had not written to me for some time.  The last time I had heard from him, he was in Leadville, Colorado, and that I knew of no reason why he neglected writing and why he did not provide for his wife.  Tom knew that if he kept up his correspondence with me I would have blamed him for not providing for his wife.

After seven years of silence on his part, in the year 1884, I moved from Mahanoy City to Dowlais, Kentucky, a mining town near Jellico, Tennessee.  He called on me and he lived in Colorado and was on a visit to Florida.  He told me he represented the Rights of Labor in that state and was now on his way to Chicago.  For twelve years I heard nothing from him.  I was looking over some mining journals from the West and in one advertisement I noticed one name, T. F. JAMES, mine expert.  He had no middle letter to his name when he left.  I wrote to that address, Los Angeles, California, and received an answer.  It was Tom, my step-brother.  We corresponded with each other.  He wrote that he had married a judge's daughter of Portland, Oregon.  After a few years together she died.  It was his second marriage.  A few years later he married again, but they separated in a few years.  Tom had a stroke of paralysis, or heart trouble and died in Los Angeles, California.

Tom's first wife and son are living near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Mrs. JAMES, number 1, (Carrie GOUGE JAMES) married a grocer.  Her son, Arthur C. JAMES, is a Methodist preacher.  Let me relate an incident that caused trouble between Tom and Carrie, his first wife.  In the year 1878 I left Mahanoy City.  Tom was living there also.  I went to Leadville, Colorado.  While there my partner was killed in a shaft.  I sent for Tom to come to Leadville, Colorado.  Tom came, as the mines were not working steady in Mahanoy City.  One day Tom received a letter stating that Carrie had walked home from a picnic with a man named PARSEL.  Tom and PARSEL had been enemies for some time and this information made Tom furious as he was engaged to her.  He was awfully jealous about her and said he would not go back nor marry her.  It was some time before I could reason with him.  When I was ready to leave Leadville, I persuaded him to leave with me.  When we arrived at Mahanoy City, Tom got married.

Shortly after this Tom took Carrie to Leadville, Colorado.  They lived there nearly one year together.  Carrie came back to her relatives and lived with them.  Tom never returned, nor saw his wife again in the many years they both lived.  Although Tom's son was born in Mahanoy City, his son Arthur, never saw his father for nearly forty years after.  His mother kept all knowledge from her son about his father.  When her son would ask for information about his father she would leave the information with him with impression that his father was dead.

On one of my visits to Philadelphia, I called him up and told him to come to a certain hotel.  When he came I told him all I knew about his father and he was greatly surprised.  Shortly after this he went to Los Angeles, California and saw his father for the first time.  Then he visited Los Angeles for the second time at his father's sudden death.  He there met his stepbrother from his father's second wife.  He was then living in Los Angeles, California.  Nearly five years have passed since I have seen Arthur C. JAMES.  I met him at Pottsville, Pennsylvania.  He is now living near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at this writing.  I do not know whether his mother is living or not.