Background
Beaver, James Addams was born on October 21, 1837 in Millerstown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Jacob and Ann Eliza (Addams) Beaver.
Beaver, James Addams was born on October 21, 1837 in Millerstown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Jacob and Ann Eliza (Addams) Beaver.
Graduate Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, 1856. (Doctor of Laws, Dickinson, Pennsylvania, and Hanover, Indiana, 1889, and University of Edinburgh, Scotland).
Honorary H. North. McAllister, December 26, 1865. Admitted to bar, 1858. Practiced Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, 1859-1861.
Served as Second lieutenant 2d Pennsylvania Infantry, April 21, 1861. Member President's commission for investigation of War Department, 1898.
Married Mary A., daughter
