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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik on 31 May 2003

Sources:
The History of Warren County Ohio
Part VI. Biographical Sketches
Turtlecreek Township
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)
Surnames:
Benedict, Brown, Coleman, Cook, Dunham, Evans, Greely, Jameson, Lawler, McCain, Snook
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JOSEPH JAMESON, retired farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born near Xenia, Greene Co., Ohio, Feb. 13, 1812; when 8 years old, his father, John Jameson, died, leaving three sons and three daughters with their widowed mother; our subject was the eldest son and next to the eldest child; his boyhood was spent at hard labor, assisting his mother in the support of the family, In 1832, he removed to Warren County and located on the farm now owned by Ephraim K. Snook, one mile below Lebanon, but which was then owned by his uncle, Samuel Jameson, for whom he then engaged to work by the month. There he met and wedded Sarah Ann Brown, still living, who also then lived with his uncle. By this union, five girls and three boys were born, all of whom are now living, the -oldest at 41 and the youngest at 19 years of age. Their names and the order of their birth are as follows, viz., Mary E., who married James M. Cook Dec. 21, 1858, and now lives near Morrow; John A., who was married Nov. 4, 1869, to Emma, the eldest daughter of James D. McCain; he has been employed as telegraph operator and agent of the P., C. & St. L. R. R. Co. for sixteen years at their offices at London, Pendleton and South Lebanon; Letitia Dow, who married John E. Dunham, of Warren County, March 13, 1864; Martin A., the present Treasurer of Warren County, who was married Aug. 20, 1868, to Kate M., daughter of John H. Evans (deceased), of Lebanon; five years later, she and his only two children died, and, on the 25th of December, 1877, he was again married to Mrs. Sarah M. Benedict, daughter of Asa Coleman, of Mason, Ohio. Newton, the third son, is a farmer in the vicinity of Lebanon; he married Miss Eva McCain, daughter of J. D. McCain; of the remaining three children, Adda, Kittie and Ella, the second-named was married, on New Year's Eve, 1879, to R. B. Lawler, of Warren County; the other two are living at home with their parents; they have been for some years identified with the teachers of Warren County. Our subject has now living in Warren County all of his eight children and eleven grandchildren, one of the latter having recently married Miss Emma Greely. Mr. Jameson was elected Superintendent of the County Infirmary in 1854, and served in this capacity four successive years; in 1858, he removed to Union Township, near South Lebanon, where he lived seven years, removing, in 1865, from there to Lebanon, where he has since lived. He was a Director. of the County Agricultural Society for several years, and has been a member of the Republican party since its inception; he bears a reputation for honesty and integrity second to none in the community.

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