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Sligh, James Elison

clergyman, journalist, lawyer, was born July 31, 1841, in Minden, La. He attended the Minden academy, and received a liberal education.

He has been a successful clergyman, and pastor of churches in Greenville, Texas, and White Oaks, N. M. While in New Mexico he was an assayer in a mining camp, and subsequently studied law.

Since 1890 he has practiced law in Shelton, Wash.; has been postmaster of his city for three years; and was the founder and editor of the Sentinel of that city.