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William Jamison
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biography
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WILLIAM JAMISON,
farmer, post-office Centretown, was born in County Antrim, Ireland,
November 25, 1823. His parents were Alexander and Jane (McKay) Jamison.
They came to America in 1847, landing in New York April 14. In July of
the same year they, with subject and two other children, came by canal
as far as Buffalo, N. Y., and from there to Erie in a boat, then on foot
with his mother to Irishtown, this county, she being fifty-one years
old. They purchased a farm in Lake Township, where the father died in
1855. They reared a family of nine children. The oldest one, Jane,
married in Ireland, and never came to this country. The others are:
William, our subject; Alexander, farmer in Lake Township; John, who
moved to Tennessee in 1868; James, in Crawford County; Daniel, in
Sharpsville, this county; Sarah, Mrs. James Garvin, of Jackson Township;
Ellen, Mrs. Andrew Ebbert, Sandy Lake Township. Our subject is the
oldest of their children, and started in the world a poor boy. In 1849
married Martha McClure, daughter of Andrew and Rosanna (Richie) McClure,
of Lake Township, and in 1850 they moved to their present farm. November
1,1859, Mrs. Jamison died, leaving three children; two daughters have
since died, and the son, Andrew, lives in Aurora, Ill.
The present wife of our subject was Sarah Ann, daughter of Arthur
and Sarah Ann (McKee) Johnston, of this township. By this union they
have seven children: James O., farmer of this township; Jennie, William
Charles, John F., Fred, Thomas A., Mary M., all living at home. Our
subject has been assessor of the township twice, and a member of the
Stoneboro Agricultural Society since its organization, having been one
of its directors, and exhibits a great deal of stock, horses and sheep,
and other products of the farm. He has always been a Republican until
the last few years, and is now a supporter of the Prohibition party. He
and family are members of Ebenezer United Presbyterian Church, of which
he is a deacon. History of Mercer County, 1888, page 1079 |
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