!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Wyoming Cemetery, Paw Paw, Lee, IL1,36, James H. Braffet, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154187483
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: FamilySearch2, James Harvey Braffet, https://ancestors.familysearch.org/L9H3-DV9
!CENSUS: 1850 Blooming Grove, Orange, NY, 312/312, Jas. H. Braffet
!DEED: Orange, NY Deed Book 127, pp. 413-415, 05-Oct-1853 deed from Daniel and Martha Durland of Goshen, Orange, NY to James Braffet of Chester, Orange, NY [this deed might be to his father or to Hezekiah's son James]
!CENSUS: 1855 Chester, Orange, NY, Jas. H. Braffit
!OCCUPATION: Teacher
!CENSUS: 1860 Paw Paw, Dekalb, IL, 3149/63, James H. Braffall
!CENSUS: 25-Jan-1870 Brooklyn, Lee, IL, 39/39, James H. Braffit
!REFERENCE: 1872 Lee, IL Plat Book145
!CENSUS: 1880 Paw Paw Grove, Lee, IL146
!REFERENCE: 1881 History of Lee County147, "Dr. James H. Braffet, physician and surgeon, born in Florida, Orange County, New York, October 16, 1834, eldest of three children of James and Mellissa A. (Firman) Braffet, now residing in Compton, Illinois. He attended school at Chester Academy under Deacon Bros., late of the Chicago "Tribune," and his successor. Rev. Phineas Robinson, as principals, completing a scientific course and also one in civil engineering. He studied there with a view to a course at West Point, passed the required examination and received the requisite credentials; but at this point he concluded to pursue the study of medicine, which he began in 1853. In 1855 he came to Illinois and located at East Paw Paw, Here he followed surveying a year, then went into the practice of medicine, which he pursued until the session of 1860 and 1861, when he entered the Rush Medical College, Chicago. After this he was constantly in practice till the session of 1868 and 1869, when he entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, where he completed his college course. In 1868 he became a member of the Medico-Pathological Society, in 1878 a member of the North Central Medical Association of Illinois, in 1879 of the Illinois State Medical Society, in 1880 of the American Medical Association. In the fall of 1860 he was married to Ellen S. Billings, of Shabbona, DeKalb County, Illinois, and daughter of Jas. M. Billings, now residing at Downsville, Dunn County, Wisconsin. Before leaving the east he was for five years a member of the Caliopean Literary Society, and for several years has been an honorary member of the Athenteum Literary Society, connected with the Classical Seminary of East Paw Paw. He has seven children : Nellie N., John J., Charles C, Mark M., James H., Jr., Willie, and Essie."
!REFERENCE: 14-Mar-1885 Amboy News148
!REFERENCE: 26-Sep-1885 Amboy News148
!REFERENCE: 10-Apr-1891 postcard from Jas. H. Braffet
!OCCUPATION: Physician149
!REFERENCE: 1892 Portrait and Biographical Record of Lee County, Illinois37, pages 433-434, "James H. Braffet, M. D., of Paw Paw, is well known as one of the leading physicians of Lee County, whose skill, success in practice, and learning place him well at the head of his profession. He was born in the town of Florida, Orange County, N. Y., October 16, 1834. His father, James Braffett, for many years an honored citizen of this county, was born in the town of Monroe, Orange County, July 22, 1802, a son of John Braffet, who is supoosed to have been of Scotch ancestry. ... Dr. Braffet was happily married in 1860 to Miss Ellen S. Billings, who was born near Detroit, Mich., and is a daughter of James and Mrs. (Serville) Billings. They have seven children, namely: Nellie, John, Charles, Mark P., Harvey, William and Essie. ..."
!REFERENCE: 1893, The Felt Genealogy150, page 275, "Ellen Savilla Billings, b. in Richmond, July 13, 1841; m. in East Paw Paw, Ill., Sept. 19, 1860, James H. Braffet, son of James and Melissa (Furman) Braffet of Paw Paw. He was b. in Florida, Orange County, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1834. Is a graduate of Bellevue Medical College and Hospital, New York, and is engaged in the practice of medicine at Paw Paw."
!REFERENCE: 1899 obituary149, Dr. James H. Braffet, father-in-law James M. Billings
!REFERENCE: 1899, https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ilslrhm/obituaries_b.htm#B, Dr. James H. Braffet
!REFERENCE: 21-Aug-1899 Lee, IL probate, James H. Braffet, 87 pages
!REFERENCE: J. H. Braffet, https://web.archive.org/web/20120209015625/http://...ee_county/pawpaw.htm
!REFERENCE: 1915 Prominent Men & Pioneers of Utah, for son Mark P. Braffet
!REFERENCE: 1927 Price, Carbon, UT deaths, for son Mark Pomeroy Braffet
!REFERENCE: Portrait & Biographical Record of Lee County, IL, page 433
!REFERENCE: 1938 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT deaths151, for son Will Carlton Braffet, James Harvey Braffet
!REFERENCE: 1960s notes of phone conversation between Mrs. Robert Ingersol Braffet and L. Vadeima G. Whitley
!REFERENCE 2001, Wisconsin Crossroads: A Genealogical History of Several Early Settlers to Wisconsin - Edes, Billings, Koch/Cook, McQuiston, Rosseter and Related Families (Manitowoc, Dunn and Buffalo Counties), "James and Savilla (Felt) Billings, Dunn County, 1860s"