James Benjamin Aswell

Peabody College University of Nashville University of Arkansas

Aswell was born in the Vernon community in rural Jackson Parish in north Louisiana to Benjamin W. Aswell and the former Elizabeth A. Lyles. He attended local schools and graduated with teaching credentials in 1892 from Peabody College, a division of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1893, he received the Bachelor of Arts degree from the former University of Nashville. In 1894, he received his Master of Arts degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1907, he obtained his law degree from the same institution. He was twice married to the former Mary Lee Wright by whom he had his daughter Corinne, and to the former Ella Foster of Mineral Wells, Texas, and thereafter Shreveport, by whom he had his son, James B. Aswell, Jr. , an author based in Natchitoches.

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