born Elgin Scotland 1860 Mary Margaret Leddy said his family ran a coach service between Elgin and Edinburgh.
University of Edinburgh. [S.F. Chronicle says he was a Baptist before he became a Congregational minister.}
He heard Livingston speak and very much admired him which led him to go to Africa. [Livingston died in 1873, so this might not be true].
1884 Serving at Equator Station in Congo under the auspices of the Livingstone Inland Mission founded by H. Grattan Guinness
He left Africa after contracting malaria and went to Italy (Florence) for a year to recover before returning to Scotland, marrying Margaret Charleson (from Inverness) and immigrating to the U.S.
1887 Published vocabulary in Edinburgh [see my post on this...the book is still available]
1888 or 1890 First came to U.S.: census data is contradictory. (Pre-dates Ellis Island records, so no help there.)
The San Francisco Chronicle [see my entry on Raised in the Priesthood] says he was raised a Baptist but became Congregational and served s minister in Oakland and Richmond before he became an episcopalian and then served in Hayward for one year fefor becoming ordained in 1896.
Entered the Episcopalian seminary in San Francisco and became a minister there.
1891 Travels on Anchoria to Scotland from New York arrives Aug. 4
1892 Hamish born in California
1893 Married Margaret Charleson [did he marry her after Hamish was born?]
1895-6 episcopal diaconate in charge of mission in Haywards [sic probably Hayward]
1896, Feb. 29 Ordained at St. Paul's Church, Episcopalian
1896 Margaret Eddie born in San Francisco
1896 In Carson City as Pastor Episcopal Church
1899 Marie born
1900-1906? Salt Lake City as Dean of St, Narks Cathedral Salt Lake City "St. Mark's Cathedral, in Salt Lake City, was built by Bishop Tuttle in 1870.
The Very Rev. James B. Eddie has been dean since Easter, 1900." The Mountain Empire Utah 1904. He was also Vice-Rector and Chaplain of Rowland Hall, a college preparatory school attached to the Cathedral. This taken from Utah As It Is.
1902 Trip of Eddie family without James B. from New York to Glasgow
Truth. (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, May 27, 1905, Page 3, Image 3
Image provided by University of Utah, Marriott Library
Persistent link: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058310/1905-05-27/ed-1/seq-3/
1906 case brought against him
Jan. 8, 1908 Unfrocked Salt Lake Tribune
1910 Pasadena CA real estate agent
1920 Los Angeles CA with second wife: Emma Crist
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