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Note: Alfred James, the third and youngest child of Matthew and Catharine (Myers) Loudon, was born Aug. 7, 1847, and grew to man's estate on the farm on which he was born, and on which he has always lived. He was bred
a farmer, and was limited in education to the curriculum of the country district school, but he is of a spirit that keeps him in close touch with public affairs, and with the most advanced ideas in his private vocation. He has been a Knight of Pythias since 1871; a Mason since 1873, and a Patron of Husbandry since 1882. He is a Republican in politics, and has long been regarded a party wheelhorse in his section of the county. He frequently figures in county conventions and occasionally in State conventions as a delegate. For nine consecutive years he was school director, each time elected by a good majority, notwithstanding the strong anti-Republican bias of his district, and in 1902, he was a nominee for county commissioner but was defeated by only a small majority. On Feb. 19, 1885, he was married to Mary Ellen, daughter of the late Simon Seiler, of Hogestown,
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