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JAMES W. DOOLEY, farmer; P. O. Downs: born in Kentucky Sept. 17, 1851; his parents removed to Bloomington when he was 6 months old, coming up the river to Pekin, and from there to Bloomington by team; he then located where the town of Holder now stands, living there a few years, when he moved to Indiana and lived until the fall of 1864, when he returned to McLean Co., and purchased a farm in Old Town and Downs Townships, upon which he lived two years, and, in 1866, he settled in Putnam Co., Ind., where he now lives. The subject of this sketch lived with his father and attended the common schools until 1873, finishing his education by two terms of study at Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Ind., where he graduated in book-keeping; he located upon his present place Feb. 14, 1879, where he has sixty-eight acres, upon which he has a good residence. Upon the 19th of October, 1876, he was united in marriage with Elizabeth G. Cowden; she was born in McLean Co., Ill., June 17, 1857; they are the parents of two children by this union — Arthur C., born July 23, 1877; Nellie B., Oct. 31, 1878; Mrs. Dooley is a daughter of F. R. Cowden, one of the early settlers of McLean Co., whose biography appears among the biographies of Old Town Township, in another part of this book.