1876 Biography - James L. Wymore
Col. James Luther Wymore, son of George and Ann Wymore, born in Montgomery
County, Kentucky, June 4, 1825. He is mostly self-educated, having taught school
and studied law in Murray, Kentucky, where he was also Lieutenant Colonel and
Colonel of the Twenty-eighth Kentucky Regiment. In 1854, he was elected
Prosecuting Attorney for Calloway County, Kentucky, and reelected in 1858. In
1868, he became a citizen of Johnson County, Illinoi, and in 1872, wes elected
to represent the Fifty-first District in the State Legislature, serving in both
sessions of the Twenty-eighth General Assembly. He has held several other small
offices, but is now retired to his farm and to private life, unmarried.
Contributed 2022 Apr 22 by Norma Hass, extracted from 1876 Atlas of the State of Illinois, pages 130 and 245.
