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JAMES VINCENT is one of the largest dealers in cattle, and is one of the prosperous and enterprising farmers of this county. He is a son of Sampson and Rhoba (Smith) Vincent, and was born in Herkimer county, New York, December 14, 1818. His grandfather, Caleb Vincent, was a resident of Herkimer county for a number of years, but was born in Providence, Rhode Island. By occupation he was a farmer, and died in Crawford county, Pennsylvania. He married, and had five children, four sons and one daughter. The maternal grandfather of James Vincent was a Mr. Smith, who was born near Utica, Oneida county, this State, where he died. Sampson Vincent (father) was born in Rhode Island, and came to this county in 1825, and located on a farm of three hundred and fifty acres in Sherman, which, with the help of a few hired men, he cultivated, in connection with running a saw-mill, the remainder of his life. In religion he was a member of the Free Will Baptist church, and in politics belonged to the whig party first, then became an abolitionist, and later on joined the republican party. He served a short time in the war of 1812, being stationed at Sackett’s Harbor, this State, on the east shore of Lake Ontario. Sampson Vincent married Rhoba Smith, by whom he had eleven children, eight sons and three daughters, all the daughters and two of the sons being dead. Of the sons living, Dressor B. lives in Cold Water, a manufacturing city in Branch county, Michigan, and having studied medicine, is a practicing physician there; Jeremiah H. is a farmer in Wyoming county, this State; Walker B., William B., and Stephen D., are all farmers in Sherman; also James.

James Vincent was educated in the common schools, and began his business career as a farmer and a cattle dealer, having nearly always dealt extensively in cattle. He owns a farm of four hundred acres in Sherman, which he operates. Some years he has bought and sold two thousand head of cattle. When the Sherman bank was organized in 1883, he was one of the first board of directors, and has been a prominent member of the directorate ever since. In politics he is a republican, and has served two terms as road commissioner. When he was twenty-five years old he was elected a justice of the peace, but would not serve. James Vincent was married in 1845 to Ann Price, a daughter of Alexander Price, of Owasco, N. Y., and by her has had three children, one son and two daughters: Jay S., who is a graduate of Eastman’s business college in Poughkeepsie, New York, and a hotel-keeper at Eureka Springs, Ark. He is married, and has one son, Claude; Mary, married to Cornelius Myrick, formerly a hardware merchant, and now owns two large farms in Sherman; they have one child, a son, Preston R.; Adelaide, a graduate of Syracuse University, who is married to Almon Taylor, the principal of the Union school at Westfield, and has one son and one daughter: Vincent and Katheryn.