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Colonel James Ward Eddy (May 30 1832 – April 13 1916) was the builder of Angels Flight funicular railroad in Los Angeles California.Eddy was born in Java New York and matriculated at Genesee College in Lima New York. He taught school in western New York before going to Illinois in 1853 where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1855.He practiced in Batavia Illinois where he also served on the Board of Education and as a county supervisor.