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JAMES M. LANSDOWNE; P. O. Greenville; cashier of the Exchange Bank of Greenville; the subject of this memoir is a native of Ohio, and was born in Clermont Co., upon the 14th of December, 1846, and is a son of Dr. Zachariah M. Lansdowne, who was born in Kentucky, but when quite young removed to Clermont Co., Ohio, where he married Mary Gray Hoover, a native of the above county; by this union there were eight children, our subject being the second child and only son; about the year 1850, the family removed to Cincinnati, and in 1855 came to Greenville, where the Doctor followed his profession until 1876, at which date he removed to Kansas, where he has since lived; Mrs. Lansdowne died in 1871; of the children, four are also deceased; James M. was educated at the public schools, and one year at Antioch College; in 1864, he enlisted in the 152d O. N. G., and participated fully in the short but active engagements of the above regiment; returning from the war, he followed clerical pursuits in the express and ticket office until 1869, when he accepted his present position as Cashier of the Greenville Exchange Bank, which he now holds; upon the 26th of September, 1876, he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Knox; she was born in Greenville Dec. 21, 1851; they have one child by this union, John Knox Lansdowne; Mrs. L. is the only daughter of John Riley Knox, a prominent lawyer of Greenville.