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James Walker Tufts (1835-1902) was an American manufacturer of silver plate.

Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts on 11 February 1835 to Leonard and Hepsibah (Fosdick) Tufts, James W. Tufts worked from 1875 to 1902 as a silverplater and as a manufacturer of soda fountain apparatus in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1885 he received a patent for a technique of reproducing decorative designs in Britannia and other soft metals.

In 1895 Tufts began development of the town of Pinehurst in North Carolina. He envisioned making a community in which people of ill health could recover from their sicknesses in what was then thought to be the benefits of the pine-scented air of the locale. The community went on to become a golf resort, and is now designated a national historic landmark.

Tufts died on 3 Feb 1902, in Pinehurst, North Carolina. His son inherited the firm, but the firm closed up shop in 1915.