JAMIESON, William J.

JAMIESON

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Date: 5/30/2021 at 20:39:33

William J. Jamieson

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 in 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 belonged to his father. His house is 14 x 20 feet, with an L, 16 x 18 feet, and his barn is 18 x 32 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.
Source: Biographical History of Crawford, Ida, and Sac Counties, Iowa, 1893, p.371