PADUCAH DAILY NEWS Paducah, KY January 1887 (Special Number) ____________________ James M. Ezell, Esq. An excellent likeness of Mr. Ezell will be found on the first page. This gentleman is a native of Calloway County, this State, and was born and reared upon a farm. He first saw the light in 1843 and received his education in the schools of his native county, where he lived until the breaking out of the war in 1861. At the first commencement of hostilities he cast his fortunes with the South and joined the Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry. He served through to the end of the war and participated in some of the most hotly contested battles fought in the Mississippi Valley. He was paroled at Columbus, Miss., in 1865, and came to Paducah and located permanently here during the same year. Mr. Ezell worked as a clerk until sometime in 1874, when he went into business for himself as a member of the dry good firm of Hecht, Ezell & Brian, one of our leading retail houses. He has served in the city council as a representative of the Fifth ward for ten consecutive years.