JAMIESON, W. L.

JAMIESON, CAMPBELL, HARRINGTON, WALROD

Posted By: Nettie Mae
Date: 1/18/2003 at 22:05:14

SOURCE: "Biographical history of Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa" Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago, 1893

W. L. JAMIESON, another one of the enterprising and popular citizens of Battle
township, Ida county, Iowa, has been identified with the agricultural interests of this
county since 1881.

He was born in Clinton county, Iowa, September 1, 1857, son of R. J. Jamieson, a
highly respected citizen of this township. His mother, nee Martha Jane Campbell, is
deceased. He is the oldest son, and third-born in a family of six children. He grew up on
his father's farm, and received his education n the district schools near his old home. In
1881 he came to Ida county, and, in company with his brother, R. M., improved a farm in
Maple township. Subsequently selling his interest to his brother, he purchased the eighty
acres in section 36, where he now lives. He is engaged in general farming, cultivating his
own land, and eighty acres more adjoining it that belongs to his father. His house is
14x20 feet, with an L, 16x18 feet, and his barn is 18x82 feet. Good fences, sheds, feed
lots. Yards, etc., and a fine grove and orchard of four acres are among the other
improvements on his land. A branch of Battle Creek flows through his farm.

Mr. Jamieson was married in Clinton county, Iowa, at the age of twenty-six, to Miss
Malinda Harrington, a native of that county and a daughter of Matthew and Betsy
(Walrod) Harrington. Her parents are still living in Clinton county, her father being now
eighty-three years of age.

Mr. Jamieson is a young man in every way worthy of the respect and esteem in
which he is held by all who know him. He is a Republican in his political views.