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Note: He won a scholarship for Queen's but he still had to work in Eganville for his uncle Alex Mills. Meanwhile, brother Robert and sister Jean went to Queen's, paid by their father. James felt gipped, since he had to work as a surveyor in northern Ontario to get enough money to go to medical school, even though he had the scholarship, but he eventually graduated from Queen's University medical school in the class of 1906 (his brother Robert was class of 1902). While in Kingston, he met Mabel Bowie, whom he soon married. After an internship in New York, he began practising medicine as a physician in Englehart, Ontario, coming to Leamington in January 1914.
One time he visited his brother Robert in Vegreville. The two had never really gotten along, probably at least partially because of the university payment incident. After James got off at the train station in Edmonton, they fought each other on the side of the road towards Vegreville over an unknown cause. Apparently they never met again after that incident (Robert never visited James in Leamington).
During his almost fifty years of medical practice in Leamington, he showed a contentment in his work and a sympathy for his patients which endeared him to all. He was obliged to retire from practice in 1953, due to illness. He served as an elder in Knox Presbyterian Church for more than fifty years.
He lived at Marlborough St. and then bought a house at 45 Askew St. in 1922 and at 1 Selkirk Ave. in 1950. He died in Riverview Hospital in Windsor and was buried in Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Leamington, Ontario.
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