James, Charles P
educator, lawyer, jurist, was born May 11, 1818, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was appointed professor of law in the Law school of Cincinnati college in 1850, and served six years. He was appointed judge of the superior court of Cincinnati to fill a vacancy. He moved to Washington, D. C., in 1864; was one of the commission appointed to revise the statutes of the United States, and was for four years professor of law in the Law school of Georgetown university, D. C.
He was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia in 1879. JAMES, CHARLES TILLINGHAST, mechanic, inventor, United States senator, author, was born in 1804 in West Greenwich, R. I. He wrote a series of papers on the culture and manufacture of cotton in the south. He was a senator in congress from 1851 to 1857 from Rhode Island. He subsequently invented a rifled cannon, and met his death from the explosion of a shell of his own invention. He died Oct. 17, 1862, in Sag Harbor, N. Y.