JAMISON, L. G.

JAMISON, KYTE, JENISON

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Date: 1/28/2014 at 13:10:33

History of Decatur County Iowa and Its People
Illustrated, Volumne II.

Prof. J. M. Howell and Heman C. Smith
Supervising Editors

The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company. Pp. 210-11. Chicago. 1915.

L. G. JAMISON

L. G. Jamison, a well known farmer living in Franklin township, has always given much attention to the dairy business and now has a herd of twenty-five registered Jersey cows. He was born in Washington county, Indiana, on the 29th of March, 1848, a son of Robert and Christina (Kyte) Jamison. The father was born in Logan county, Kentucky, but was taken by his parents to Indiana when six years of age. He was a farmer by occupation and removed with his family to Monroe county, Iowa, in 1848. In 1850 he located in Clarke county, entering one hundred and sixty acres of land from the government. He was a man of unusual force of character and made a place of influence for himself among the early settlers of that county. His wife was born in Washington county, Indiana, and died in 1897, when seventv-nine years of age. They were the parents of nine children, namely: John H., deceased; L. G.; Frank M., who is living in Osceola; William Winfield, who died in 1854; Catherine E., who died in 1881, when twenty-eight years of age; Mary Elizabeth, who Avas born in 1855 and who died in 1885; Rebecca, who was born in 1857 and who died in 1885; James Harvey, born in 1859, who is now residing in Des Moines and who is president of the Western Life Insurance Company; and Thomas Benton, whose birth occurred in Juh% 1862, and who farms the old homestead.

L. G. Jamison attended the Garden Grove schools and supplemented the education so acquired by study in the Bryant & Stratton Commercial College at Burlington, from which he was graduated. For a number of years he taught school in Clarke county and was then engaged in mercantile pursuits for seven years, but during the greater part of his life he has been engaged in agricultural work. He has found dairying very profitable and now has a splendid herd of twenty-five registered Jersey cows.

On the 16th of May, 1878, Mr. Jamison was married to Miss Sarah Luella Jenison, who was born in Ripley county, Indiana, in 1857, the only child of John C. Jenison. Her father was a farmer by occupation and was well known and highly esteemed in his community. He passed away January 16, 1910, when seventy-six years of age, and is survived by his widow, who has reached the venerable age of eighty-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Jamison are the parents of a son, Oliver Perry, whose birth occurred on the 14th of April, 1879. He was graduated from the Weldon high school at the early age of fifteen years and subsequently attended Parson's College at Fairfield, Iowa, for one year, later was a student in Drake University for three years and for a similar period of time studied in the Keokuk Medical College, from which he was graduated April 26, 1905, with the degree of M. D. He also has a diploma for special work done in the study of diseases of the eye, ear and nose and he likewise has a diploma in pharmacy. He is located in Weldon and has won an enviable reputation as a physician and surgeon. He devotes considerable attention to surgery and has successfully performed many difficult operations. He is a prominent member of the medical society and is highly respected by his colleagues in the profession.

Mr. Jamison attends the Methodist Episcopal church and contributes to the support of the work of that organization. His political belief is that of the republican party and for twenty-five years he has served acceptably as justice of the peace. The competence which he enjoys has been worthily won and in promoting his own interests he has also advanced the development of his township along the lines of agriculture and dairying.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, January of 2014