Background
Axtell was born in Pennsylvania, the son of the Review Doctor Philip Axtell who founded a number of Cumberland Presbyterian Church congregations in Pennsylvania, most notably the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Pittsburg.
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James Axtell
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An alternative spelling of his name is James Wycliffe Axtell. He also helped to establish the National Stockman and Farmer which became one of America"s primary agricultural newspapers. Foreign about twenty-two years Axtell was either editor, manager, or managing editors
J. West. Axtell married Mary Helen "Nellie" Minor in 1874.
In 1898, Axtell accepted the position of business manager with the Saint Louis Observer. On the death of the paper"s editor/publisher David Madison Harris in 1900, Axtell became The Observer"s managing editors
From this experience he authored several books about Christian education. He died on December 23, 1909.
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