From History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, 
publ. 1912, Page 1447-1448
 
JAMES W. FRASER.  Success has been achieved by James W. FRASER, farmer and 
stock raiser of East Troy township, Walworth county, because he has been 
persistent along legitimate lines and has been an advocate of twentieth-
century methods, which he employs on his fine farm, as any one may readily 
ascertain even by a cursory glance over his well kept and well improved 
fields.  He has given evidence of the outcropping of many of the sterling 
attributes of his sturdy Scotch ancestors and while laboring for his 
individual advancement he has not been neglectful of his duties to his 
neighbors and the general public, and he is therefore held in high favor by 
his wide acquaintances.
 
Mr. FRASER was born in San Joaquin county, California, on January 27, 1859, 
but nearly all his life has been spent in Walworth county, Wisconsin whither 
his parents, Alexander and Julia Ann (CRITES) FRASER, a complete sketch of 
whom appears on another page of this work, came.
 
James W. FRASER was reared on the home farm in this county where he assisted 
his father with the general work during his boyhood, and he received his 
education in the public schools and in the Milwaukee Normal.  Early in life he 
turned his attention to farming and is now the owner of one of the excellent 
farms of East Troy township, which consists of three hundred acres, which he 
has placed under modern improvements and a high state of cultivation, and here 
he carries on general farming and stock raising on a large scale, making a 
specialty of dairying, keeping a fine herd of cattle.  He has a good home and 
substantial outbuildings and everything about this place denotes good 
management.
 
Politically, Mr. FRASER is a Republican and he has taken considerable interest 
in public affairs.  He has served his township as assessor during several 
terms in a most creditable manner.  He is also prominent in fraternal circles 
of the county, being a member of St. James Lodge No. 41, Free and accepted 
Masons, also Camp No. 575, Modern Woodmen of America, and No. 328, Mystic 
Workers.
 
Mr. FRASER was married on July 3, 1887, to Zella WARNINGTON, a native of 
Rochester, Racine county, Wisconsin, having been born there on November 9, 
1866.  She is the daughter of William and Mariam (GRIMSHAW) WARNINGTON, both 
natives of England, he born in Warwickshire and she in Yorkshire.  They 
emigrated to Racine county, Wisconsin, when young and there were married, and 
settled on a farm in that county, and here they spent the balance of their 
lives, he dying in Waukesha county in 1901.  His widow survives.  Their family 
consisted of four children, two of whom are living.  The father devoted his 
life to farming and in politics he was a Republican.  To Mr. and Mrs. FRASER 
three children have been born, namely: Harrison Chester (deceased), George 
Alexander and Julia Ann Ruth.
 
Submitted by Carol