| Name | James Nelson RICHARDS |
| Alias/AKA | Jim5 |
| Occupation | Physician13,5 |
| Birth Date | Dec 6, 188513 |
| Death Date | Jun 10, 192612 |
| Death Place | Warkworth, Percy Twp, Northumberland Co. ON Canada |
| Education | Warkworth PS, Warkworth Cont. School, Ripley Collegiate, Upper Canada College, U. of Toronto (M.D.), postgraduate studies in Boston & Germany13 |
| Father | Nicholas Dennis RICHARDS (ca1852-1918) |
| Mother | Margaret McCREA (ca1858-1897) |
| 1 | Clara Jessie WILSON |
| Birth Date | 188612 |
| Death Date | 193712 |
| Father | William WILSON (1846-1920) |
| Mother | Ruth Ann OSTERHOUT (1840-1922) |
| Marriage Date | Mar 191113,5 |
| Children | Edith Ruth |
| Margaret Lillian (1913-1985) | |
| Clara Kathleen (1915-2002) | |
| Doris Helen (1919-1971) |
"Three Generations of Medical Practice in Warkworth 1860-1926
.....
"Dr. J.N. Richards 1885-1926
"James Nelson Richards, son of N.D. Richards and Margaret McCrea, was educated at Warkworth Public School, Warkworth Continuation School, Ripley Collegiate and Upper Canada College. He took his medical training at the University of Toronto and graduated with honours in 1910. After some months of postgraduate study in Boston and Germany, he joined his father in the established practice in Warkworth.
"In March 1911, he married Clara Jessie Wilson. She was the daughter of William Wilson and Ruth Ann Osterhout. She was also the great granddaughter of two other United Empire Loyalist families. The home farm was one of the Crown grants to the Loyalists. Her maternal grandmother, Clara Bennett, wife of James Osterhout, came as a child from New York State to Prince Edward County. Her father was an officer in the British army and she, with her mother and six sisters, travelled to Canada by oxcart at night, hiding during the day, from marauding soldiers.
"William and Ann Wilson had six children--Lillian May, William Edgar, Isabella Grace (who died in infancy), Thomas Franklin, Samuel Arthur and Clara Jessie. None of these are now living. The Wilsons had always, like the McCreas and the Richards, been staunch supporters of the Presbyterian Church in Warkworth.
"James Nelson Richards left his practice in Warkworth when war broke out in 1914. He was commissioned as a Captain of the Medical Corps, and served in Britain and France."13
He was sworn in as a coroner for Percy Township on Jul 26, 1912.59
MISC: Jim's date of beginning practice in Warkworth is given as 1910, 1911 and 1912. The date of his commission is also given as 1916.13