STANDARD ATLAS
OF
SCOTT COUNTY, ILLINOIS
1903
Geo. A. Ogle & Co.Publishers & Engravers
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Chicago
Transcribed by Larry Fearneyhough
Page 112
As a citizen, a soldier and a lawyer, Judge James A. Warren of Winchester, is well at the head of the list. He is a prominent member of the bar in this section of Illinois and his genuine worth as a counselor is recognized throughout the state. His experience in Scott county dates from December, 1856, when he came to Winchester and until August, 1861, made his home with the late James Cheseldine. When Judge Warren was eighteen years of age he enlisted in Company C, 28th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry and was active service in the civil war until he was wounded at the battle of Hatchie, Tennessee, October 5, 1862. His injuries resulted in the loss of a limb. In April, 1863, he returned to Winchester. Early that fall he commenced clerking for the late G. W. P. Ebey, who at that time conducted a grocery store where the banking house of Frost & Hubbard now stands. Three years he remained there and then accepted a position in the dry goods store of the late D.B. Watt, which position he held for some fifteen months. He gave up clerking then and for three years attended the Soldiers' College at Fulton, Illinois. Following this he taught one term of School at the Claywell school house, south of Winchester.
For one year he read law with the late W. W. Berry in Winchester and then attended the Union College of Law at Chicago, graduating from that institution in June 1874. He then returned to Winchester, entered upon the practice of law, and has successfully prosecuted his chosen profession since that time. He is a man of marked ability and ranks as a pleader and trial lawyer, with the best in Central Illinois. He is sound in his judgment, correct in his opinions and successful in his practice. He has filled the office of police magistrate and city attorney of Winchester, and served four years as county judge of Scott county.
In July, 1876, the marriage of Judge Warren and Miss Fannie E. Balsley was solemenized. To them one daughter, Miss Mildred B., has been born and is today a gifted young lady; the sunshine and light of their lives and their home.