JAMES B. NORRIS

    James B. Norris, a farmer, was born in Malden, Ontario, February 20, 1822.  He is a son of Jeremiah K. and Margaret (Harris) Norris, who emigrated from Gloucestershire, England, in 1812, and settled at Halifax, N. S., where Mr. Norris rented 1,800 acres of land of Admiral Cochran, and dealt in stock till 1819, when they removed to Harrison County, Ohio, going from Philadelphia, Penn., in wagons.  In 1821, they went back to Ontario, crossing sing Lake Erie on the ice, and in 1830 they returned to Harrison County, where Mr. Norris died January 28, 1837.  Mrs. Norris came to Delaware County in 1866, where her death occurred July 14, 1878.  Our subject was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools.  When fifteen he left home and followed working by the month three years at $8 and $10 per month. December 9, 1840, he came to Mill Creek Township and purchased thirty acres of land.  He lived in different places in Union and Delaware Counties till 1864, when he located on the farm he now occupies. November 30, 1842, he was married to Rebecca L., daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Schofield) Pennypacker, and a native of Chester County, Penn., where she was born April 25, 1823.  Of eight children born to them, three sons are living - Jacob P., Jeremiah K. and Benjamin F.; Joseph, Jeremiah, Jane, Hannah L. and Sarah A. are deceased.  Jacob P., the eldest of the deceased, enlisted October 1, 1862, in Company D, Eighty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged on account of disability October 1, 1863.  He reenlisted February 24, 1864, in Company K, Fifty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged August 1865.  Mr. Norris, our subject, was the first man drafted in Union County, and he furnished a substitute.  He owns a farm of 152 acres, and is engaged in farming and raising stock.  Mr. and Mrs. Norris ate both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.