Boise Watchmaker, Optician, and Inventor James T. Laughlin [otd 02/05]

Boise jewelry store owner, and inventor, James Thomas Laughlin was born February 5, 1863 on a farm about forty miles southeast of Canton, Ohio. While James was still very young, the family moved to a farm in western Illinois. They moved again in 1870-71 to a farm in western Iowa, about twenty miles from Omaha, Nebraska.
James Laughlin. [Hawley]
James worked for his father until about 1884, when he landed a job at a jewelry store in a small town about fifteen miles north of the family farm.

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