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James T. Lane was born in White County, Tenn., November 8, 1832. His parents, Turner Lane, of Kentucky, and Miss Mary Scroggins, of Tennessee, were married in that county, and of their ten children those now living are Mary P., Martha M., Sophronia W. and James T. The family settled in Howard County, Tenn., in 1850. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lane were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the former was a Democrat. After a very successful career as stockman and merchant, the father met with financial reverses in 1849. The author of the present sketch left home at the age of twenty-four to support himself, and in a few years, in which he had devoted himself to agricultural pursuits, became the owner of his present valuable farm. In 1867 Mr. Lane married Miss Martha Leslie, daughter of Robert Leslie, and of this union were born nine children, all of whom are now living: Felix, Walker, Robert, Lee, Vance, James, Shepard, Maude and Kate. Through the late war Mr. Lane was in the Nineteenth Arkansas Regiment, enlisting in 1862, and surrendering at Greensboro, N. C., in 1865. Captured at Arkansas Post, he was a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas for nearly four months, after which he was changed and went back to his regiment, fighting in the battles of Ringgold Gap, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and other prominent ones, but was not wounded in any way. After the war he turned his attention to agriculture again, owning 280 acres of the best land in Arkansas, and leading a most successful and happy life, and always willing to advance such causes as merit his attention. Mrs. Lane and himself with the six oldest children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a Democrat of excellent standing.