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James was born in Utica, New York, to William James and Jane Maria Price.
His grandparents on both sides had emigrated from Wales in 1800.
He had very little formal schooling, though studied for a short time at the Utica Academy.
At the age of 15, James learned the trade of printing at the office of Utica " Liberty Press " under Westley Bailey, a noted abolitionist of the time.
The abolition paper printed here later partnered with Francis B. Fisher in Hamilton, New York to form the Whig newspaper Madison County Journal which he bought in 1851.
When the Republican party made their first canvass in 1856, the newspaper merged with the Democratic Reflector under the name of the Democratic Republican, which would lead the opposition against the Know Nothing Party.
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