James Maxwell was born on 18 June 1830, in Scotland, United Kingdom. He married Jane Summerville about 1853, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 31 May 1893, in Delhi Township, Ingham, Michigan, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Holt, Delhi Township, Ingham, Michigan, United States.
Scottish: habitational name from a place in Kelso, near Melrose in Roxburghshire, the name of a salmon pool on the Tweed near Kelso Bridge. The placename is first recorded in 1144 in the form Mackeswell ‘Mack's spring or stream’ (Old English well(a)).
Irish: adopted for Ó Meisceall, see Miskell . This surname is common in Ulster.
Jewish: arbitrary adoption of the Scottish name, or Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
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