. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. nd various foreign ports. He commandedone of Cope s packet ships, sailing between Phila-delphia and Liverpool, and later was captain of thesteamer Atlantic, of the Collins Line, the firstAmerican steamship line to Liverpool; he went toWashington and obtained the appropriation to carrythe mail—the first under the American flag Hemade over two hundred voya
. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. nd various foreign ports. He commandedone of Cope s packet ships, sailing between Phila-delphia and Liverpool, and later was captain of thesteamer Atlantic, of the Collins Line, the firstAmerican steamship line to Liverpool; he went toWashington and obtained the appropriation to carrythe mail—the first under the American flag Hemade over two hundred voyages, but lived retired fn°rrS?e nle r°r \° his decease which occurredAnn pi, S^°Vember l6 l835> he married MissAnn Bell Welsh, who was born in 1804, in Phila-delphia and preceded him to the grave, passingaway at their home in Philadelphia. She was awoman of many virtues and fine character and adevout member of the Episcopal Church, where her husband worshiped for many vears Theirfamily consisted of two children-Elizabeth andJames (our subject). Elizabeth West was born in183/. in Philadelphia, and received a thorough edu-cation, after her graduation from the Philadelphiaprivate schools finishing her literary training in. COL JAMES WEST COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 417 London, England. On October i, 1863, she mar-ried Cooper Smith, of Philadelphia, who died De-cember 8, 1893, and they had a family of three chil-dren, viz.: Mary Nixon, Mrs. J. Somers Smith;Anna Curry, Mrs. Henry Paul Bailey; and WikoffSmith, unmarried. James West obtained his elementary educationin the private schools of Philadelphia. When ayoung man he entered the dry-goods house of DavidS. Brown & Co., as clerk, in i860 transferring to theimporting house of P. Brady & Co. When theCivil war broke out he answered the first call forthree-months men, with the City Troop of Phila-delphia, of which he was a member before theopening of hostilities. He afterward went to PortRoyal, and was present
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