About Sexton, J.A. Sexton School

Sexton, James A. (1844-1899)  James A. Sexton was born in Chicago, Illinois.  At the beginning of the Civil War, Sexton, age seventeen, enlisted in the Union Army.  When the war ended four years later, twenty-one-year-old Sexton had attained the rank of lieutenant colonel.  He then relinquished his life as a soldier and settled on his newly-purchased Alabama plantation.  He soon came back to Chicago, however, to become a partner in Cribben Brothers, a stove-manufacturing company.  After amassing a small fortune, he served as U.S. Postmaster General under President Harrison and a colonel in the national guard.

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