James was born at
Wheeling, Fulton Co., Arkansas, on 17 July 1860. He was the son of
William Samuel Moffatt and
Martha Jane Wilson. James Strong Moffatt D.D. was Doctor of Divinty. Dr. James Strong Moffatt was President of Erskine College, Due West, Abbeville Co, SC; pastor of Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church, Chester, Chester Co, SC 1886-1906; and pastor of the church in Columbia, Richland Co, SC at time of his death. He married
Jennie Moffatt Grier on 23 November 1883. James died on 25 January 1922 at
Columbia, Richland Co., South Carolina, at age 61. His body was interred in January 1922 at
Due West, Abbeville Co., South Carolina.