Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company in Bisbee, Arizona. According to one historian, James was "a genuinely good man of impeccable character, a secret philanthropist, whom Charles Parkhurst said loved everything in the universe 'from God down to the newsboy.'" He donated the Union Square Drinking Fountain in New York. In 1885, his family built a summer home in Madison, New Jersey, and James there built a park and a free library, believing the latter would be "a means of public enjoyment and benefit." James married Ellen S. Curtiss, with whom he had a son, Arthur Curtiss James. James died at the Mount Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in September 1907, one of the hundred wealthiest Americans, having left a large fortune estimated at $26 million (U.S. dollars). Included were bequests to charities and religious institutions of $1,195,000. The library James built in Madison, New Jersey, is the home of the Museum of Early Trades and Crafts. Williston, North Dakota, was named for him by his friend, railroad magnate James J. Hill. References External links James Library Building, Museum of Early Trades & Crafts, Madison, New Jersey. Union Square Drinking Fountain (James Fountain), New York City. . 1832 births 1907 deaths Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery Amherst College alumni Businesspeople from Liverpool English emigrants to the United States Williston, North Dakota Phelps Dodge 19th-century English businesspeople