From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Page 564
 
JAMES LAWRENCE TUBBS, son of Samuel TUBBS (a soldier of the war of 1812) and 
Polly FROST, was born at Augusta, New York, September 10, 1824; came with 
parents in 1843 to Lafayette; qualified himself as a surveyor, and in time, as 
a civil engineer; married December 10, 1849, Anna Rebecca, only child of Dr. 
John Mathias HENDERSON and Samantha, daughter of Charles and Anna HIME; was 
elected eight times county surveyor, and served occasionally as undersheriff.  
As first a Democrat, he became a Freesoiler and then a Republican.  In 1872 he 
supported Greeley and returned to the Democracy.  His profession brought him 
little revenue until past middle life, when he became more profitably occupied 
in laying out the village of Williams Bay, and in civil engineering work for 
Chicagoan owners of Geneva Lake (shore) property.  He also began the 
compilation of a second general abstract of titles to county property, and this 
work had begun to bring him revenue before his death, which was September 6, 
1899.  Mrs. TUBBS was born at Willoughby, Ohio, December 13, 1830, and died at 
Elkhorn, December 25, 1904.  Mr. TUBBS was a lifelong student of pure 
mathematics, and even in latest years found much pleasure in the study and 
mastery of quaternions.  His clerical habit was neat and exact, and his memory 
of the political events of his time, of the actors therein, and of men who in 
earlier years had come to and gone from Walworth county was seldom matched.

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