Eric F. James
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ERIC F. JAMES co-founded the James Preservation Trust with Judge James R. Ross, Jesse’s great grandson. Eric also is the archivist of the Joan Beamis Research Archive that produced the first genealogy of the Jesse James family, Background of a Bandit, published by the Kentucky Historical Society.
Recently, Eric supervised the exhumation of Jesse’s twin children, Gould and Montgomery James, reuniting them with their parents per the wishes of their mother, Zee Mimms-James.
Since 1997, Eric writes and publishes the official web site for the Jesse James family, Stray Leaves and the family blog, Leaves of Gas.
Formerly as a writer, Eric’s weekly newspaper column “Remarkable Real Estate” appeared for several years in California’s Daily “Law” Journal publications. He also was a contributing editor and writer for California Real Estate, the trade publication of the California Association of Realtors.
Eric is retired from two business careers. For over 30 years he managed and operated international real estate brokerage firms. In a prior career, he was an actor for 13 years in regional theatre, the Broadway stage, and national television. For nearly a decade, he served his local community of Dana Point, California, as a city commissioner.
Eric F. James resides in Danville, Kentucky near Pulaski County, founded by his 4th great grandfather, John M. James. He has two sons, Christian and Malcolm James who live in California, and two former wives: his first wife Delia Sheen, niece of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen and mother of his children, and his second wife Broadway producer Susan Bagley-Bloom, granddaughter of tobacco scion R. J. Reynolds.
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