Addison

JAMES, Edwin

Vermont Historical Magazine, No. XI, October 1867, p 113
(extracted from a section on the history of Weybridge, Addison County, 
Vermont; author credits his source as the Middlebury Triennial Catalogue)

Dr. Edwin JAMES was born 29 August 1797 in Weybridge [Addison County, 
Vermont]; graduated at Middlebury College in 1816; studied medicine in Albany 
[Albany County], New York, three years; botany with Prof. TORREY; geology 
with Prof. EATON; was attached to Major LONG's exploring expedition to the 
Rocky Mountains three years; two years compiling and publishing the journal 
of said expedition; six years surgeon and Indian agent at the extreme outpost 
of the U. S. Government; two years editor of the "Temperance Herald and 
Journal," Albany, New York. From 1834 to 1840 returned to the Indian agency, 
since which he has been a farmer in Burlington [Des Moines County], Iowa, 
acting as an Indian agent and surveyor. He has published nine different 
works, five of them in the Ojibewa language, among which is a translation of 
the whole Bible.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly