James McBride was a prominent pioneer statesman in Butler County, Ohio. He was Hamilton's first Mayor, and a prominent State Representative associated with the canals, archealogist who supplied a considerable number of sketches of earthworks for early texts on the Mississippi valley, Ohio's leading pioneer author and antiquarian, Miami University Secretary and President of the Board of Trustees, Butler County's first Sheriff, a surveyor, and an officer of other various entities. James McBride married the daughter of Judge Lytle, of the Lytle family of the Ohio River Valley, and was through her kinsman with Sen. Bone, Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, and Governor of Ohio Andrew L. Harris.
James is the recipient of several awards for his work as a writer and a composer.
JamesMcBride grew up one of twelve siblings in the all-fl housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn, the son of a fl minister and a woman who would not admit she was white.
McBride was an adult before he discovered the truth about his mother: the daughter of a failed itinerate Orthodox rabbi in rural Virginia, she had run away to Harlem, married a fl man and founded an all-fl Baptist church in her living room in Red Hook.
JamesMcBride descended from a line of men and women that were in the forefront of developing America.
JamesMcBride was vigorously opposed to slavery and became one of the founders of the Republican Party in Oregon.
JamesMcBride may have helped one of his sons-in-law by minding the store because the 1870 census lists him as a merchant while his son James was a teacher that year.
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