LOS ANGELES TIMES, PG A2, 1 NOVEMBER 1928: T.F. JAMES, GEOLOGIST, DIES...Nationally Known Mining Engineer Had Lived In Los Angeles for Fifteen Years...Thomas F. James, nationally known mining engineer and geologist and contributor of many articles on those subjects to scientific journals, died yesterday at Pahl Hospital. Mr. James was born in Minersville, PA February 24, 1858, and at the age of 7 years was working underground in the mines in that district. Following a natural bent for mining engineering he made it his lifework. He was manager of various important mining properties in Pennsylvania and Colorado. In Colorado he was also a member of the faculty of the Colorado School of Mines, and was one of the survivors of the Indian massacre in that State in 1878, the year that he moved to Leadville. Mr. James was present in Mexico during the 1912 uprising and barely escaped alive. He had been a resident of Los Angeles for fifteen years; became a widower sixteen years ago and leaves two sons, Howard T. James, an attorney of Los Angeles, and Rev. Arthur James, Pastor of St. Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. He lived at 3434 Glenhurst avenue. Funeral services will be conducted at the Little Church of the Flowers Saturday at 10 a.m. Interment will be at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
LOS ANGELES TIMES, PG A2, 1 NOVEMBER 1928: T.F. JAMES, GEOLOGIST, DIES...Nationally Known Mining Engineer Had Lived In Los Angeles for Fifteen Years...Thomas F. James, nationally known mining engineer and geologist and contributor of many articles on those subjects to scientific journals, died yesterday at Pahl Hospital. Mr. James was born in Minersville, PA February 24, 1858, and at the age of 7 years was working underground in the mines in that district. Following a natural bent for mining engineering he made it his lifework. He was manager of various important mining properties in Pennsylvania and Colorado. In Colorado he was also a member of the faculty of the Colorado School of Mines, and was one of the survivors of the Indian massacre in that State in 1878, the year that he moved to Leadville. Mr. James was present in Mexico during the 1912 uprising and barely escaped alive. He had been a resident of Los Angeles for fifteen years; became a widower sixteen years ago and leaves two sons, Howard T. James, an attorney of Los Angeles, and Rev. Arthur James, Pastor of St. Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. He lived at 3434 Glenhurst avenue. Funeral services will be conducted at the Little Church of the Flowers Saturday at 10 a.m. Interment will be at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
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