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“The Book of Prominent Pennsylvanians“
Leader Publishing Co., 1913
pg. 82
“JAMES A. WAKEFIELD, a lawyer of Pittsburgh, Pa., with an office in the Berger building, was born in Redstone, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, May 3, 1865. He is the son of DAVID H. and MARY (RANDOLPH) WAKEFIELD. He is the great-grandson of SAMUEL MORTON a signer of the Declaration of Independence. MR. WAKEFIELD’S father lead the life of a country gentleman.
MR. WAKEFIELD’S first education was received in the public schools of his native county. Later he attended the Allegheny College of Meadville, Pennsylvania, and subsequently Union College, Schenectady, New York, where he took several oratorical prizes and successfully represented his college in the Intercollegiate Chautauquan Contest. He graduated in 1888, then undertook the study of law in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar in 1890, and is now a member of the Superior and Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania; also of the United States District and Circuit Courts. He has been connected with many important cases, and has devoted special attention to complicated insurance cases.
In 1894 he was the Democratic candidate for Congressman from the Twenty-second District of Pennsylvania, being opposed on the Republican ticket by John Dalzell. MR. WAKEFIELD was defeated, but made a highly creditable canvass. Among fraternities, he is a member of the Delta Tau Delta and the Theta Nu Epsilon. He is past master of Hailman Lodge, F. and A. M., and a member of the Country Club of Pittsburgh.”
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