Bios: JAMES C. NORRIS : Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

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  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
  Lawrence County Pennsylvania
  Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo, N.Y., 1897
  
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    JAMES C. NORRIS,
    
    [p. 88] one of Lawrence County's promising young lawyers, and a resident of
  New Castle, was born near the city in 1870. His father, Nathaniel Norris, was
  born in 1832 in County Cork, Ireland, and came to America about the time he
  attained his majority, locating in New Castle. He was a tanner by trade, but
  did not follow his trade after coming to this country, but obtained
  employment in the mills of New Castle, where he worked twenty-five years in
  the capacity of a puddler. He is now retired from active work and owns and
  lives on a lot covering about one and one-half acres, which is situated
  within the present city limits. His wife, Elizabeth, daughter of James Boyd
  of Mercer County, was born in 1842. They reared the following seven children:
  Samuel H., born 1863; John B., 1867; James C., 1870; Minnie M., 1874; Cassius,
  1876; Charles, 1877; and Frank, 1884.
    
    Our subject was educated in the schools of New Castle and in Grove City
  College, and studied law with Dana & Long of New Castle, being admitted to
  the bar for the practice of the legal profession in the March term of court,
  1895. He immediately opened an office at No. 6, East Street where he now
  conducts a general law practice. With his superabundant energy and undaunted
  perseverance, he is attracting to himself a large and lucrative business. He
  is making rapid progress in his profession, and we venture to predict that in
  the near future we shall hear of his merited success as one of the leading
  attorneys and counselors-at-law of his county; by his close application to
  the business of his profession, supplemented by his genial and hearty
  manners, he is surrounding himself with a host of admiring friends.
    
    May 26, 1897, Mr. Norris was united in marriage with Miss Effie J. Norris,
  an accomplished young lady of Claflin, Kansas, who finished her education in
  Boston, Mass. Mrs. Norris' father, N. E. Norris, is a prominent agriculturist
  of Claflin, Kansas.