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His son, Sgt. James W. Littlefield died toward the end of World War One, at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, at the age of 28 years old, influenza that deteriorated into pneumonia. That same year, 1918, his son Earl C. Littlefield was working in Kansas City for the C.B. Norton Jewelry Company.
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James E. had a younger sister Alice Louise (1862-1945) who never married, and a younger brother Ralph (1872-) who became a machinist.
James had four five children, the first two eldest three were [[Ralph Edwin Littlefield]] (b. 1886), who followed James into optometry, as did Ralph's son Lawrence, and Lawrence's son who is in current practice. Then there was Earl C. (b. 1887) and , who also followed James into optometry, working for the C.B. Norton Jewelry Company at least by 1918, as reported by a jewelry magazine. Then James W. (b. 1889-1918), and who died of pneumonia while an Army Sergeant, while at Camp Zachary Taylor, in Louisville, Kentucky, at the age of 28. I think their mother was named EsterClara Etta Bomgardner, and according to a 1900 census, they were living in Topeka, Kansas at the time. Then on February 4, 1905, James had married May A. Sawyer (b. 1874) on with children: Hugh F. (1906-1912), Elizabeth Alden Littlefield Williams (b. 1908-), and had moved back to Saco, Maine.
In 1917, he had opened up an optical practice inside a large general store in Atascadero, and was active in the first businessman's association there.
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