 James Edmund Lawrence was born in Michigan, 10 October 1882.His father, James Elliot Lawrence, who was born in Michigan and was a business man in Washtenaw County with Farrington B F & Co. (Benjamin F. Farrington, Clifford Elliott, James E. Laurence).Wholesale Grocers and Coffee and Spice Mills, 54 and 56 Jefferson ave and 128 and 130 Woodbridge w. His mother was Marion Kitchen.