Biography of J. & J. Render Company
FROM OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
A DESCRIPTIVE WORK ON JEFFERSON COUNTY, NEW YORK
EDITED BY: EDGAR C. EMERSON
THE BOSTON HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1898

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Render, J. & J. -This firm is composed of James and Jonathan Render, sons of William Render. James was born in Yorkshire, England, March 27, 1833, educated in the common schools, Gouverneur Academy and Theresa High School. He has always been a farmer and he and his brother Jonathan own 563 acres of land and a dairy of eighty cows. James owns eighty-three acres of land and the firm of J. & J. Render have one-third interest in a farm of 300 acres of land in Antwerp. Both brothers are Democrats in politics and are members of Antwerp Grange. James is not married and Jonathan married, January 1, 1879, Catherine McKenzie, born in Canada, and they have five children: Lillian P., James D., Alice B., Almedia J. and William W. Lillian P. is now a student at Philadelphia, N. Y., and Alice B. at Antwerp, N. Y.