Biography

08/01/1832 - 05/21/1910

MILLHAM, James, a Representative from Wayne County; born, August 1, 1832 in Newton, Sussex County, NJ; clerk, mercantile business; co-owner, mercantile business (1857-1860); salesman (1861-1862); appointed, assistant accessor, United States Internal Revenue Service, Wayne County (1862-1863); appointed, accessor, United States Internal Revenue Service, Wayne County (1863-1866, 1868-1870); proprietor, general mercantile business (1864-1886); elected, justice of the peace, Hawley (1870-1875); school director, Hawley (1880); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1880; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1882); unsuccessful campaign, associate judge, Wayne County (1891); president, Hawley Water Company; president, Hawley Bank; died, May 21, 1910 in in Hawley, Wayne County, Pennsylvania; interred, Walnut Grove Cemetery, Hawley, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.