The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics 1907.

The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. Members of the Sixtieth Congress. Justices of the Supreme Court, p. 1124

JAMES C. KERWIN was born in the town of Menasha, Winnebago county, Wisconsin, May 4, 1850. He attended the common schools of the neighborhood and later the Menasha high school, from which he was graduated. He prepared himself for the practice of the law by a course of study in the law school of the University of Wisconsin, and was graduated in 1875. Returning to his native county, he opened a law office in Neenah and has since been actively engaged in the profession. He was city attorney of Neenah for twelve years, and was appointed a member of the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin in 1901. In April 1904, he was elected associate justice of the supreme court, and entered upon judicial duties in January, 1905.