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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 615-616]

    JAMES H. STANFORD, a resident of Spring Township, represents a business
    still in its infancy in this section of country, and capable of great
    developments.  He has the most extensive apiary within the limits of
    Cherokee County, and his success in this line proves future possi-
    bilities, and paves the way for much wider work in the same direction.
    His apiary consists at present of about fifty stands of bees; three
    years ago he began with two stands.  His bee products for the year of
    1889 exceeds 3,000 pounds of excellent honey, which finds a ready
    market at good prices.  His success has been of such magnitude that he
    expects to engage much more extensively in the same line.  He will
    start two other apiaries at other points in the county, considering
    that plan better than to keep too many colonies in the same community.
    Mr. STANFORD was born in Franklin County, Massachusetts, April 15,
    1851.  A sketch of his father will be found elsewhere in this work. He
    remained with his father until his twenty-fifth year, when he entered a
    homestead in Osceola County, Iowa, which he sold in 1879 and removed to
    Cherokee County.  His present farm lies mainly in the fertile bottom of
    the Little Sioux, and he has control of about 700 acres of pasture land
    which is well fenced.  Mr. STANFORD has not seen fit to take unto
    himself a life companion, and consequently seeks enjoyment in travel.
    In order to escape the rigorous climate of this latitude he goes South
    during the winter, and remains there until the appearance of spring.
    Politically he is a Greenbacker, and is proud of the title.  He is a
    man well read on topics of general interest and such subjects as
    relate to his business.

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