Source: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pmcbride/james/f059.htm
... Benjamin was in medical school in 1872 in St. Louis, Missouri, separated from his family. He was in joint practice with Dr. J. P. McElhinney in Cottleville, Missouri. He and his family moved near Fayette, Howard County, Missouri, in 1883, where his son, Samuel, went to Central College for two years. In 1885 they moved to Texas in covered wagons. In 1886 they lived on the Sam Star Ranch in the Cherokee Nation. Later he went to Springfield, MO. and then back to Paris, Texas, finally to Glory, Texas, where a home was purchased. ...