Biography:

Farmer, county commissioner, Confederate soldier. Born– Tuscaloosa, Ala., August 29, 1844. Parents– Thomas and Susan Charlotte (Farley) Maxwell. Married– Eugenia E. Harris, June 5, 1867. Children– six. Education– Auburndale, Mass.; University of Alabama, 1861. Served with the 34th Alabama Regiment, Loachapoka, Ala.; Lumsden’s Battery, Tuscaloosa; discharged, May 4, 1865. Farmer in Tuscaloosa County; served on county commission, Tuscaloosa County. Died July 23, 1930.

Source:

Autobiography; ancestry.com

Publication(s):

Autobiography of James Robert Maxwell of Tuskaloosa, Alabama. New York; Greenberg, 1926.

Joint_Publication(s):

A History of Lumsden’s Battery, C.S.A. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; R.E. Rhodes Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1905.

Papers;

The plantation account book of James Robert Maxwell is held by the Hoole Special Collections Department of the University of Alabama Libraries.