Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . • • JAMES BELL MC COMB 10 merchant in Dublin; Martha and Dorcas, who married two Hen-derson brothers; James, who was the second son, born in 1765 atthe village of St. Field, in the County of Down, nine miles fromBelfast. He emigrated, when only eighteen years of age, toAmerica, landing in Philadelphia in July, 1783. He shortly afterjourneyed to Richmond, thence to Albeinarle County, where heobtained employment and remained for some time, subsequentlys
Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . • • JAMES BELL MC COMB 10 merchant in Dublin; Martha and Dorcas, who married two Hen-derson brothers; James, who was the second son, born in 1765 atthe village of St. Field, in the County of Down, nine miles fromBelfast. He emigrated, when only eighteen years of age, toAmerica, landing in Philadelphia in July, 1783. He shortly afterjourneyed to Richmond, thence to Albeinarle County, where heobtained employment and remained for some time, subsequentlysettling in Augusta County. He purchased a farm on Christians Creek, Augusta County,from the Misses Nancy and Mattie Black, where he made hishome until his death in 1846. This farm and the one adjoining,which belonged to his eldest son, William, now belongs to Wil-liams second son, William Rives McComb, the only living grand-son of the first settler. James McComb married in 1793, Susan-nah Henderson, daughter of John Henderson, a Captain inColonel Richardsons regiment during the Revolutionary children were Christiana, James,
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