Zaleski Journal, Volume 2, Number 30, Zaleski, Ohio, 1891 October 21

The Albert Wood James Collection contains materials belonging to both Albert Wood James and his Noel Vanderford James. Most of the materials date between 1872 and 1895. This includes six ledgers/account books of A.W. James, which contain detailed records of patients, prescriptions, and various illnesses during the time of his medical practice in Zaleski. Several other items of Albert James are a handwritten "Code of Ethics" adopted by Zaleski physicians in 1889, physicians visiting book, several medical text promotion advertisements, and three personal notebooks containing detailed geometric and mathematical calculations. The remaining items in the collection are letters written (97) to Noel James, most concerning legal/political matters during his position as Clerk of Vinton County Board of School Examiners.

Other items include a notebook (1881) belonging to Lucius Cassius James, which contains land surveying figures for the construction of a railroad. At the age of 18, Lucius conducted a land survey for the proposed construction of a railroad to connect the towns of Hamden and Lancaster (called the South Bloomingville Project). However, after the survey was made, no funds were available to actually begin construction. The surveying figures in the notebook may have been from that project.

Also, contained in the collection is a family history completed in 1973 by the remaining James family members. It includes a personal history of Albert Wood James and biographical information concerning his children. A copy of Zaleski Journals (1891), The Hamden Enterprise (1906), and The McArthur Democrat-Enquirer (1926) are also found in the James collection.