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JAMESON

CAPTAIN A. B. JAMESON, civil service, Washington, D. C., was born in Schuylkill County, Penn., August 23, 1836, in the family of nine children born to Judith and Daniel JAMISON, [footnote: As spelled by Capt. Jameson's father; correct spelling, however, is Jameson.] eight of whom are living, four sons having given their services to the cause of the Union during the war of the Rebellion. The father removed with his family to Columbia County in 1839 and established the hotel known as "The Halfway House," between Bloomsburg and Berwick on the Susquehanna. This hotel was but short lived, however, to Mr. JAMISON, for, having connected himself with the Methodist Church in 1842, he abandoned the business. Our subject attended the public schools until he was sixteen years of age, and then left his home to battle for himself with the realities of life. Later he secured about two years'
schooling at Dickinson Seminary and the academy at New Columbus; then taught a district school one year. April 21, 1862, Mr. JAMESON enlisted in Company A, Sixth Pennsylvania Reserves; was commissioned first lieutenant September 21, 1862, and breveted captain United States Volunteers at the battle of the Wilderness. At the battle of Antietam he received a contused wound of the knee joint, on account of which disability he was appointed acting quartermaster of the regiment, in which capacity he served during the last year of his service. After serving the full term of his enlistment (three years), Capt. JAMESON left the army a cripple, and had, therefore, to accept a position in the civil service. He also commenced the study of medicine, in which he graduated from the University of Georgetown, D. C., Medical Department, March 5, 1867. Capt. JAMESON takes pride in the fact that he has assisted in the adjustment of the accounts of the interest on the public debt; redemption of Government securities; funding and refunding of national loans caused by the war of the Rebellion, involving millions on millions in amounts passed upon, requiring fidelity too the Government and honesty and care in the settlements; and it can be truly said of him, without adulation, that he has always held the confidence of those under whom and with whom he has served in any capacity. Reared in the Calvinistic faith by consistent orthodox parents, our subject has had engrafted on him Christianizing influences. In mature years, however, not being able to subscribe too the iron-bound creeds and dogmas as advanced by Calvin, he sought what he considered the more liberal, larger and broader faith, and became united with the Unitarian Church. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, Bloomsburg, pg. 345)

Horatio Gates Jameson (1778-1855) studied medicine under his father, Dr. David Jameson, and began practice in 1795. He settled in Baltimore ca. 1810, receiving his medical degree from the University of Maryland in 1813. Among other offices, Jameson served as surgeon at the Baltimore Hospital, 1814-1835, consulting physician, Board of Health, 1821-1835. He was a founder and president of Washington Medical College, Baltimore and served as Professor of Surgery 1827-35. He was the editor of Maryland Medical Recorder, 1829-1833 and author of Lectures on Fevers, 1817, American Domestic Medicine, 1817, Yellow Fever, 1824, and Treatise on Cholera, 1854.

Horatio Gates Jameson, M. D.
Historical Biography

Horatio Jameson was born in York in 1778, and married August 3, 1797, Catherine Shevell (Chevell), of Somerset, Penn., (where he then abode), and had issue: Cassandra, Elizabeth, Rush, Catherine, Alexander, Cobean, David Davis, and Horatio Gates. He seems to have sojourned, after his marriage, in Somerset, Wheeling, Adamstown, and Gettysburg, until about 1810, when he removed to Baltimore, where he established himself permanently in practice, founded and became president of the Washington Medical College, and at one time, Health Officer of the city. About 1830 Dr. Jameson with his wife and daughter, Elizabeth Gibson, made a voyage to Europe on one of the packets running from Baltimore to the ports of Germany, and visited several places on the continent, but sojourned longest at Copenhagen, Denmark; to and from the American representative at whose court he was accredited as a special bearer of dispatches by the government at Washington. While on his return from a trip to Tex!
as, (where he had purchased lands), the faculty of the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, composed of Drs. Gross, Drake, Rives and Rogers-all celebrities in their profession-tendered him its presidency; accepting which, he removed with his family from Baltimore in March 1836, and resumed practice there. On one or two of his journeys between Texas or the West and Baltimore, he was severely injured by the upsetting of a stagecoach on the mountains of West Virginia, and was unable to rejoin his family for months. His wife, Catherine (Shevell) Jameson, died in Baltimore, November 1, 1837; and he married in 1852, a lady of Baltimore, Hannah J.D. Ely, nee Fearson, (the widow of Judah Ely, Esq., with a son, Jesse Fearson Ely). Within the last year of his life, he left Baltimore and went to York, to spend his last days among the scenes of his childhood-so fondly remembered and graphically described by him in a Baltimore journal in 1842. But the hope and ambition of his life-to obt!
ain and restore to the family his patrimonial homestead and estate-he
never realized; and he died, unprocessed of its acres and domicile, while on a visit to the city of New York in July 1855-the same year in which the ancient homestead was destroyed by fire. His widow survived him nearly thirty years, and died in the city of Baltimore, August 19, 1884, at the ripe age of eighty years.
Dr. Jameson was celebrated for his surgical skill and knowledge, and also had a wide repute for his successful treatment of cholera-epidemic in Baltimore and Philadelphia, 1793-98 and 1832. He wrote several medical works, which were accepted as authority by the profession, and was an able and earnest advocate of the “non-contagion” theory. Like the great Dr. Rush, he belonged to the school of the immortal Sangrado of Gil Bas fame, whose theory of practice obtained even unto the days of the writer. The earliest recollection of the writer’s youth is that of a fine old English engraving, which hung over the mantel in his grandfather’s office. It represented Galen discovering a skeleton in a forest; and neither it, nor the lines engraved beneath, has ever been effaced from the writer’s memory. The latter are reproduced here, as a suggestive indication that the disciples of Galen, in those days, were devout men, fearing God:

Forbear, vain man, to launch with Reason’s eye
Into the vast depths of dark Immensity;
Nor think thy narrow but presumptuous mind,
The least idea of thy God can find;
Though crowding thoughts distract the laboring brain,
How can Finite INFINITE explain.

Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor

[From Medical Annals of Baltimore, by John N. Quinan]

JAMESON, HORATIO G., M. D., BORN IN Pennsylvania, 1778; University of Maryland 1813; Consulting Surgeon Baltimore City Hospital, 1819-35; Consulting Physician Board of Health, Baltimore, 1822-35; Professor of Surgery and Surgical Anatomy, Washington Medical University, 1827-35, and one its incorporators, 1827; Member American Medical Association, 1856; Professor of Surgery Cincinnati Medical College, 1835; member Philosophical Societies of Berlin, Moscow, etc.; editor Maryland Medical Recorder, 1829-32, and ----; died in New York, 1855.
[Gives subjects of Medical works, treatises, et cetera, of which he was the author, published from 1813 to 1856, included in which are two volumes--”American Domestic Medicine, 1817,” and “A Treatise on Cholera, 1854,” and treatise “On Yellow Fever, intended to prove the necessity of V. S. (Blood-letting) in that disease,” and “On the Non-Contagiousness of Yellow Fever,” (read before the Medical Section of the Literary Assembly, held in the city of Hamburg) 1830].
“Dr. H. G. Jameson was no doubt one of the ablest surgeons of his day. He took away, for the first time in the world, nearly the entire Upper Jaw (1830); in May, 1820, he ligated the External Iliac Artery; in 1823, he performed Tracheotomy, the first in Baltimore; in 1824, he excised the Cervix Uteri, (the first in Great Britain or America). He was the first in Baltimore to attempt Ovariotomy.” ---The Surgeons of Baltimore and their Achievements,” (Read before the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, at their meeting in honor of the Sesqui-Centennial of Baltimore, October 13, 1880, by Bernard B. Browne, M. D.). While physician to the Board of Health, Baltimore, he obtained vaccine virus by vaccinating a cow. ---See his report, 1831.”
1820, January, Dr. H. G. Jameson removes the upper maxillae, after trying the carotid. (The first operation of the kind on record).---Gross.
1821, August, Dr. Jameson (H. G.) ligates the external iliac artery for aneurism.
1823, October 20, Dr. Jameson (among the first in Maryland) performs Tracheotomy. He also attempts Ovariotomy, but fails (first attempt in Baltimore). He also (the first in Great Britain or America) excises the Neck of Uterus.
1826, August 25, Dr. Jameson successfully operates for stone.
1827, March 13, Washington College of Washington, Penn., authorizes the establishment of a Medical School in Baltimore. Faculty are H. G. Jameson, Surgery; Samuel K. Jennings, Materia Medica and Therapeutics; William W. Handy, Obstetrics and Diseases of Women; James H. Miller, Practice; Samuel Annan, Anatomy and Physiology; John W. Vethake, Chemistry. They organize and lecture on Holliday Street, opposite the old City Hall.
1831, March 7, Dr. H. G. Jameson secures virus by vaccinating a cow.
1855, Dr. Horatio Gates Jameson ob. At 77 (in New York)

Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor

Medical History

The first physician in York, of whom we have any records, was Dr. David Jameson. He came from Scotland, where he was born and received his medical education, and located in York to practice his profession among the first inhabitants of the town. During the French and Indian wars in 1756, he offered his services in defense of the colonies, and was commissioned a captain, and left his profession to share the dangers on the frontier. He was wounded in an engagement with the Indians near Fort Lyttleton, at Sideling Hill, on the road from Carlisle to Pittsburg, and was left for dead on the field. He afterward discharged the duties of brigade major and lieutenant colonel.
During the Revolutionary was he held the position of colonel. Notwithstanding his position in battle was that of a warrior, he also attended to the duties of surgeon, and at the battle of Kitanning, he dressed the wound of Gen. Armstrong, who was shot in the shoulder. He was a man of some wealth in those days and contributed liberally of his means to support of his country. He was the father of Dr. Horatio Gates Jameson, who was born in York in 1778, and succeeded his father in the practice of medicine at York, for a short time, and afterward removed to Baltimore, where he established himself permanently in practice, founded and became president of the Washington Medical College, and at one time health officer of the city. Dr. Jameson was celebrated for his surgical skill and knowledge, and also had a wide reputation for his successful treatment of cholera epidemic in Baltimore and Philadelphia, (1793-98) and 1832. In 1835 he accepted the presidency of the Ohio Medical Coll!
ege, and held the position until 1836, when he resigned and removed to Baltimore. In 1854 he again returned to York, to spend his last days among the scenes of his childhood. He died while on a visit to New York City, to investigate cholera, which was raging in the city at the time, in July 1855.
While Dr. Jameson resided at Baltimore his brother, Dr. Thomas Jameson, practiced medicine in York, and in all important cases, especially those requiring surgical skill, Prof. Jameson was called from Baltimore in consultation. In 1850 he performed the first operation for Ovariotomy attempted in York County on Mrs. Hoke, of Paradise now Jackson Township. The lady died during the operation. Dr. Jameson was a member of the American Medical Association; member of the philosophical societies of Berlin, Moscow, etc., and editor of the Maryland Medical Record, 1829-32. He was also the author of several medical works. Among these were two volumes on “American Domestic Medicine,” 1817. “A Treatise on Cholera,” 1856, and “A Treatise on Yellow Fever, intended to prove the necessity of blood letting in that disease,” and “the non contagiousness of yellow fever.”
Dr. H. G. Jameson, no doubt one of the ablest surgeons of his day. He took away for the first time in the world nearly the entire upper jaw (1830); in May 1820, he ligated the external iliac artery; in 1823, he performed tracheotomy, the first in Baltimore; in 1824 he excised the cervix uteri (the first in Great Britain or America). He was the first in Baltimore to attempt Ovariotomy. In 1831, while physician to the board of health, he obtained vaccine virus by vaccinating a cow. He was the preceptor of Profs. Smith and Gross, and was on the most intimate terms with these great surgeons. As he was born, raised and died while his domicile was in York County, practiced his profession here for some time, and claimed York as his home, we claim especially his history as part of the medical history of York County, and therefore feel justified in giving this extended notice of perhaps the most eminent man York County has yet produced.
Dr. Thomas Jameson, son of Dr. David Jameson and brother to Prof. Jameson, practiced medicine in York until 1838, when he died while on a visit to his brother, Dr. H. G. Jameson, in Baltimore. Dr. Thomas Jameson resided in Paradise, now Jackson Township, at a place known as Spangler’s tavern on the Gettysburg turnpike, about nine miles from York, from 1832 to 1837. He had an extensive practice among the country people, and was elected coroner in 1808, and held that office until 1818. He was also elected sheriff in October 1821, and held office until 1824, and was more extensively known throughout York County in his time than any physician before, or after him.
Dr. Thomas Jameson was excessively fond of sport, and was one of the greatest cockfight in the county.
His second wife was a widow named McClellan with two children, one named Henry M. McClellan, afterward the well known Dr. Henry M. McClellan, who read medicine with step father, Dr. Thomas Jameson, and upon the death of Dr, Thomas Jameson in 1838, he acquired the greater part of his practice, and retained it and the confidence of the people, until he died August 7, 1869, aged sixty years.

Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor

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Horatio Gates Jameson, M. D. of York County, PA Historical Biography <http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/JAMESON/2005-04/1113029452>  by Hitchheick@aol.com 

York  Daily Record 1700-1749  http://www.ydr.com/ntbf/ci_4336784
- Circa 1745: Future York County
Famous family gets early fame

Dr. David Jameson, a 30-year-old physician, opens a medical practice in York. But the call of war draws him into service. He sustains serious wounds in the French and Indian War, and the 61-year-old marches with county troops in the Revolutionary War.
His son, Horatio Gates Jameson, eclipses his father in fame as a physician. He studies medicine under his father, practices medicine at age 17 in Somerset County, and moves to Baltimore, where he earns a medical degree at age 35. He founded Washington Medical School in his new home and published accounts of several unusual and pioneering operations in the early 19th century.
John Gibson, Horatio Jameson's grandson, eclipses his forebear in local prominence. Gibson served as county judge in the 1880s and compiled an extensive county history in use today.

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CHRISTOPHER LAUMAN was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and died in New York. He was 1st Lieutenant in the 3d Battalion of Association of York County in December, 1776, and was at Trenton and Princeton. He commanded the 4th Company of the 3d Battalion, Col. David Jameson's Regiment, in 1778.
(Cert. of Pa. State Librarian of October, 1890.)

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In the French and Indian War of the 1750's, when Benjamin Franklin saw the imminent dangers on the American frontier after British General Braddock's 1755 defeat near present-day Pittsburgh, Franklin over much legislative resistance pushed through the Pennsylvania Colonial legislature funds to support the building and arming of a line of frontier forts to defend Pennsylvania against the French and Indians.

Ben Franklin commanded the Philadelphia militia as its Colonel Commander in this first armed effort to defend against the French and their Indian allies.

Ft. McCord was built by William McCord and his brothers in 1756 as part of this line of frontier Pennsylvania forts. It is well-known and memorialized in Pennsylvania history where 26 people lost their lives or were captured on April 1, 1756 in an attack by the Indians backed by the French. Its history is a poignant one. On April 2, 1756, Captain David Jameson and his company of men along with others attempted to retaliate against the Indians and free the captives at Sideling Hill not far from the Fort. Captain David Jameson, although left for dead survived the fierce battle and crawled back to Ft. Littleton after being shot through the chest. Later the Captain/Doctor credited his dog (Rover) with having saved him by returning to the scene of the battle and helping him to return to Fort Littleton with his severe injuries.

Female members of the William McCord family who had been captured at Ft. McCord on April 1, 1756 were recaptured in a daring rescue in September 1756 at Kittanning, near present-day Pittsburgh.

They were rescued by frontier militia rangers headed by the famous Colonel John Armstrong, who later became one of Pennsylvania's two Major Generals in the American Revolution. Colonel Armstrong's brother had been murdered by the Indians he found at Kittanning.

For the daring rescue of these prisoners at Kittanning, the Penn family and the Colonial government of Pennsylvania struck not one but two medals in Colonel John Armstrong's honor.

Eearly Map - 1750-1775 showing Ft. Littleton

Marker Name:		Fort McCord - PLAQUE
County:		Franklin ? (near Chambersburg, PA)
Date Dedicated:		1914/10
Marker Type:		Plaque
Location:		~2.5 mi. NE of Edenville up SR 4008 to Rumler Rd., ~.5 mi. south to barn, plaque within fence on left
Category:		Early Settlement, French & Indian War, Forts, Military, Native American
		Marker Text: The site of Fort McCord where twenty seven pioneer settlers men women and children were massacred by indian savages or carried into captivity April 1st, 1756. Was a few rods south east of this spot. In the list of victims were Mary McCord, Mrs. John Thorn and babe, Mrs. Anne McCord wife of John McCord and two daughters, Martha Thorn a young mother with unborn babe, and a young girl...

 

 

Officers of the Pennsylvania Regiment–1759
First Battalion

Colonel–John Armstrong
Lieut Colonel–Thomas Lloyd
Major–Jacob Orndt
Second Battalion
Colonel–James Burd
Lieut Colonel–Joseph Shippen
Major–David Jameson; to have a Brevet dated Apr 24, 1759
Third Battalion
Colonel–Hugh Mercer, Apr 23, 1759
Lieut Colonel–Patrick Work, Apr 24, 1759
Major–Edwaed Ward, Apr 26, 1759

Ref: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/1pa/paarchivesseries/series2/vol2/pass2-14.html

Note by RAJ: Armstrong and Mercer became famous Generals during the later Revoluntionary war and then major David Jameson became a Colonel.

PROVINCIAL OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS, 1757-1764
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NAMES OF THE OFFICERS IN THE PAY OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA, WITH THE DATES OF THEIR COMMISSIONS, THEIR COMPANIES AND WHERE POSTED
DECEMBER 1757

See  http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/1pa/paarchivesseries/series2/vol2/pass2-14.html for numerous listings of David Jamison

Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families
by Lewis R. Culbertson; Zanesville: Courier Company, 1923", p. 95-96.

Fourth Generation

"(VI.) Col. Robert Culbertson of Hopewell Twp., Cumberland Co., Pa., moved to Columbus O., in 1801. Mar. first ______, mar. second Mrs. Elizabeth (Davis) Irwin. (Irwin was her second husband; her first husband was David Jamison, son of Col. David Jamison, M.D. an officer of French and Indian War and the Revolution.)

Issue (Most of These by First Wife):
1. Andrew, d. Apr., 1826. Lived at Columbus, O.
2. James, Lived at Columbus, O.
3. Rebecca (Mrs. Moore).
4. Jane (Mrs. Park).
5. Agnes (Mrs. Park).
6. Keziah (Mrs. Brotherton).
7. Martha (Mrs. Brotherton).
8. Margaret (Mrs. Keller).
9. _______ (Mrs. Breckenridge).
10. Sarah (Mrs. David Jamison)

Note:From Jameson Genealogy and Will of Robert Culbertson.

Fifth Generation

(1) Andrew Culbertson is given Hopewell Tp., Cumb. Co., Pa. Census 1790, self and wife, one son under 16, and one daughter. Andrew first appears as a taxable in Hopewell Tp., Cumb. Co., in 1788. He was of age before that. He moved with his father to Columbus, Ohio, in 1801. Died intestate at Columbus, O., in 1826 and Mr. Deshler (D.W.) of the wealthy Deshler family, was appointed administrator. His children are not given in settlement of his estate but widow Esther is given. In the old Genealogy (Culbertson) the names of the children were taken from the Jameson Genealogy, but the writer of this work fails to mention the son Robert. It was through the Pension office records and correspondence with descendants in Ills. that I was able to connect Robert their ancestor, with the War of 1812 soldier. In pension application he says "Born 1790, drafted into Ohio Militia, Capt. Geo. Gibson's Co., at Columbus, Ohio, Oct., 1814."
Residence at time of application Washington, Tazewell Co., Ills. Descendants say "Robert was born at Columbus, O. Owned land on Scioto [River] at Columbus, Ohio. Had a brother Andrew, who died young. Had a sister who married a Shannon. Grandmother died young and grandfather did not remarry. He was in the War of 1812. He moved to Washington, Tazewell Co., Ills. He and his sons owned land there. He afterwards moved to Gilman, Ills. and lived with his son Joseph and died there about 1870." Records show that Andrew (1) married his cousin Esther Culbertson, daughter of Robert Culbertson, son of Irish Samuel of Pa. "Row." (priv. 1776-7 in Revolution, i.e. Robert.) In his est. inventory filed 1826, only $150 of pers. property and on realty, hence names of heirs not given save in surety of Esther as admn'x.

Issue:
11. Alexander, d. Columbus, O.
12. Elizabeth, d. (Mrs. Andrew Dill), Columbus, O.
13. Isabella, d. (Mrs. John Emmick), Columbus, O.
14. Rebecca, d. (Mrs. Nathaniel W. Smith), Columbus, O.
15. Mary, d. (Mrs. Wm. W. Shannon), Columbus, O.
16. Robert, d. about 1870. Gilman, Ills.

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 498-501

HON. HENRY J. MYERS is a native of Adams County.  Although now engaged in the
business of forwarding and commission merchant and dealer in produce, he was
formerly an extensive farmer, with large merchant mill on Conewago Creek, Tyrone
Township, near New Chester, at which occupation he was engaged until he removed
with his family to New Oxford, April 1, 1878.

NICHOLAS MYERS, wife and sons migrated from Amsterdam, Holland, in 1753, and
located in Lancaster County, Penn.; ten years later Nicholas bought 900 acres of
land in Adams County and moved to the tract, building near Round Hill, in the
vicinity of York Sulphur Springs.  Their children were John, Jacob, David,
William, Ludwick, Nicholas, Jr., Elizabeth, Susan, Margaret J. and Mary.  John,
the eldest, was born in Amsterdam, married Miss Sherman, of York county, and had
issue.  Jacob, our subject’s grandsire, was born in 1760, married Hannah Smith,
and in 1796 removed to Canowago Mills, and later to New Chester.  Their children
were John, Philip, Henry and Elizabeth.  The father lived to be eighty-five and
the mother seventy-five years of age, and their remains were interred in the
Bermudian Cemetery.  David married Mary Sultzbach, of York County, and to them
three daughters and one son were born.  Margaret married Peter Binder, and
became the mother of four sons and one daughter.  Elizabeth, daughter of David
Myers, married James Jameson, grandsire of Henry J. Myers, and died October 14,
1805, aged twenty-five years.  They resided a number of years at East Berlin,
and were buried at Abbottstown.  William Myers married Miss Erb, of Frederick,
Md., and died in Virginia.  They had issue whose names are unknown.  Ludwick
married a sister of the above lady and had issue.  His second wife was a Miss
Dull, living near Abbotstown, and they were the parents of eighteen children. 
Ludwick was seventy-nine years of age at his death, and was interred at the
Bermudian Church.  Nicholas, Jr., married a Miss Weaver, and had issue.  His
second wife was a Miss Chronister; the two bore him twenty-six children, all of
whom reached an advanced age except two.  Philip wedded Mary Heikes, and to
their union were born five sons and one daughter.  The parents were interred at
the Bermudian Church.  Peter also married a Miss Erb, who bore him three sons
and two daughters.  Elizabeth married Michael Miller; they had issue whose names
are unknown.  Susan wedded Andrew Albert, and their issue was Jacob and Anna. 
They resided near Dillsburg.  Margaret married Col. Anthony Kimmel, of Frederick
County, Md., who was elected State senator of that district, and to this
marriage one son, Anthony, was born.  Mary married a Mr. Weaver, of York County,
and had sons and daughters, whose names are unknown.  John, the eldest son of
Jacob Myers, was born in 1783, and married Eva Myers, who became the mother of
five sons and three daughters.  After her death John married the widow of Adam
Myers, who died April 11, 1872, aged eighty-nine years.  Philip was born in
November, 1788, and married Elizabeth Smyser, who bore him five sons and five
daughters.  After her death he married Annie Hersh.  His death occurred August
5, 1881, at the age of ninety-three years.  Elizabeth, only daughter of Jacob
Myers, married Peter Myers, and their issue was two sons and three daughters. 
The parents lived and died near Round Hill; she at eighty-three and he at
seventy-nine years of age.  Henry, youngest son of Jacob Myers, was born April
1, 1791, on lands located by his grandsire, Nicholas, Sr.  His parents later
moved to Conewago Mills.  At the age of twenty-one years he married Nancy
Jameson (their children are mentioned in note of David Jameson).  In 1842, when
the Whigs had a majority of 700 in Adams County, Henry was elected a member of
the Legislature by the Democracy.  He died at New Chester, this county, February
29, 1868, aged seventy-seven years.  For the following maternal history of our
subject the writer is indebted to Gen. Horatio Gates Gibson.  It embraces five
generations.  David Jameson, a graduate of the Medical University of Edinburgh,
Scotland, immigrated to America about 1740, stopping first at Charleston, S. C.,
and finally settling in York County, Penn.  He was commissioned first as
captain, then as brigade-major and lastly as lieutenant-colonel of the
Provincial forces of Pennsylvania, and also held a commission as colonel of
militia of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary war.  He also held civic
offices by executive appointment in the county of York in 1764 and 1777.  He
practiced his profession many years in York.  His wife, nee Elizabeth Davis,
bore him a family of five children:  Thomas, James, Horatio G., Cassandra and
Emily.  Thomas was a physician of York until 1838; he served as coroner from
1808 to 1818, with the exception of two years, and as sheriff from 1821 to 1824. 
His first wife was Miss Hahn, of York, whose children were Thomas, Catherine,
Charlotte and Margaret.  His second wife was Mrs. McClellan, with two children,
and she bore him one son, Charles.  Catharine P., daughter of Thomas Jameson,
married Daniel P. Weiser, of York, and had issue - Gates J., David, Oliver P.
and James.  Charlotte, the daughter of Thomas Jameson, married Adam J.
Glossbrenner, formerly member of Congress from the York, Adams and Cumberland
District, and had issue - Emily, Jameson C., Mary and Ivan.  Margaret, daughter
of Thomas Jameson, died unmarried.  Charles, son of Thomas, became a Methodist
minister and located in or near New York.  Oliver P., son of Daniel P. and
Catherine J. Weiser, married and had issue - Emily, Grace, Oliver and James
(latter deceased).  Emily and Mary, daughters of Adam J. and Charlotte J.
Glossbrenner reside in Philadelphia (unmarried).  Jameson C., son of Adam
Glossbrenner, died young.  He was a page in the House of Representatives at the
time his father was sergeant-at-arms of that body.  Ivan, son of Adam J.
Glossbrenner, married Annie Hantz, of York, where they now reside, their issue
being Lottie L., Adam J., Emily M. and Magdalena. 

 

HORATIO GATES JAMESON was born in 1778, and August 3, 1797, was married to
Catharine Shevell, of Somerset, Penn.  They resided at villages in Pennsylvania,
the last place being Gettysburg, until 1810, when a permanent location was made
at Baltimore, where he founded and became president of the Washington Medical
College.  Their children were Cassandra, Elizabeth, Rush, Catharine, Alexander
C., David D. and Horatio G.  David D., a physician of Chambersburg, Penn., died
in 1832, without issue.  His brothers Alexander C. and Rush were also
physicians, and died without heirs, the latter in 1837, while in military
service.  Horatio G., Jr. (son of Horatio Gates Jameson), was born in 1815, and
in 1836 graduated at the Ohio Medical College.  In 1841 he married Sarah
McCulloch, daughter of Mary (Pannell) and William Porter of Baltimore, Md.,
whose brothers, David R. and George B. Porter, were governors of Pennsylvania
and Michigan, respectively, and James M. was secretary of war under President
Tyler.  The Doctor and wife left no heirs, and died, within a few weeks of each
other, at their home at Mount Washington.  Cassandra Jameson was born in 1798 in
Somerset, Penn., and married the Rev. William James Gibson in Baltimore in 1832,
and had issue-Catharine, Cassandra, William and Robert; of whom Catharine only
survives.  Cassandra Jameson Gibson died in 186-, and the Rev. Dr. Gibson
married Elizabeth Murray in 187-, and had issue - Robert and William. 
Catherine, daughter of Rev. J. W. Gibson, of Philadelphia, became the wife of
George R. Maze, a merchant of Chicago; Cassandra and Robert died without issue. 
Elizabeth Jameson was born in Wheeling W. Va., February 20, 1801, and married
the Rev. John Gibson, September 27, 1821, and had issue - Margaretta Rebecca
Mitchell, William, Horatio Gates Jameson, John and Robert.  Elizabeth Jameson
Gibson died in York, November 9, 1855.  William Gibson was born in Baltimore May
26, 1825.  As a protégé of Capt. Isaac McKeever, he made a cruise of three years
in the Pacific, 1837-40.  February 11, 1841, he was appointed by President Van
Buren a midshipman, and rose to the grade of commander on the active list of the
navy - which rank he now holds.  He married at New Orleans, December 26, 1868,
Mary Meade Addison, of Washington - a niece of Rear-Admiral Sands.  Horatio
Gates Gibson was born in Baltimore May 22, 1827, and is now colonel of the Third
United States Artillery.  He was appointed cadet at West Point March 8, 1843, by
John C. Spencer, Secretary of War, and from that institution his diploma was
received in 1847.  March 16, 1863, he was married to Harriet L., daughter of
Mary H. and Benjamin Walker of St. Louis, and to them were born Annie, in St.
Louis; Horatio G. J., in Louisville, Ky., and Catherine F., in Fort Preble. 
Margaretta R. M., in 1844, married Hiram Schissler, of Frederick, Maryland, and
to them were born Catherine C., Annie M., Horatio G., William and John.  The
mother died in 1879 and the father in 1882.  Catherine S., daughter of Hiram
Schissler, was born in Williamsburg, Penn., in 1847, and in 1872 was married to
Hon. F. J. Nelson, of Frederick.  Annie M., her sister, married Hon. James H.
Hopkins, of Pittsburg, Penn., late member of Congress from that city, and to
them were born William F., Kate and James H.  John Gibson was born in Baltimore
April 17, 1829.  He studied law with C. F. Mayer, Esq., and Hon. Robert J.
Fisher, and in 1849 was admitted to the bar and practiced until his election to
the bench in York County, in 1881.  June 22, 1865, he married Helen Packard, of
Albany, N. Y.  Their children were Robert F., Charlotte P. and John.  Robert
Gibson was born in 1831, served in 1847 and 1849 as a page in the United States
Senate, and was assistant on coast survey, and in 1857 was appointed by
President Buchanan second lieutenant in Third Infantry, United States Regiment. 
He afterward graduated in law, and died at his home in Warrensburg Mo., in 1861,
without issue.  Catharine, daughter of Horatio Gates Jameson, who was born in
Baltimore in 1808, was married, in 1836, to Robert J. Fisher, Esq., who for
thirty years was president judge of the Nineteenth Judicial District of
Pennsylvania.  To the marriage were born eight children, of whom George,
Catherine, Emily S., Annie, Helen C. and David A. grew to maturity.  Catherine
J. Fisher died in 1850.  Catherine Fisher was born in York, Penn., in 1837. 
July 2, 1867, she married James M. Marshall, an army officer, and to the
marriage were born Kitty F., Ellen M., Robert J., Jonas F., Thomas A. and Emily
S.  Annie H. Fisher was born in York and married James W. Latimer, Esq., now one
of the judges of the Common Pleas of York County, and to them three daughters
were born, viz.:  Catherine J., Janet C. and Emily F., and a son, Robert
Cathcart.  Robert S. J. Fisher was born in York, Penn., July 4, 1847.  He
studied law with his father, Robert J., and from the position of examiner in the
patent office was promoted, in 1883, to that of chief examiner by President
Arthur.  His wife is Harriet Tyler.

JAMES JAMESON, grandfather of our subject, married a daughter of David Myers, of
Adams County, to whom were born Nancy and David.  The father was also a
physician of Allentown, Penn., and principal owner of a chain bridge across the
Lehigh River at that place.  He was born in 1771 and died in 1831.  Nancy,
daughter of James Jameson, married Henry (her first cousin), son of Jacob Myers,
of New Chester, Penn., and had issue:  Jacob A., Singleton (deceased), Henry
Jameson, Ann E. J., Horatio Gates, David P. and William (latter deceased). 
David Jameson, son of James, married and had issue:  Henry M., Amelia, Nancy,
James B., Rush and Elnora.  They lived one and a half miles east of Gettysburg,
and their brick barn was used as a field hospital by the Confederates during and
after the battle of Gettysburg.  Jacob A., son of Henry and Nancy J. Myers, a
native of Adams County, married Sarah Deardorff, of York Springs, and their
children were Emily S., George H., Ellis G. (deceased), Nancy, Leigh R., Jacob
U. and William B.  Jacob A. resided many years on a farm near York Springs, in
Adams County; then moved to Bethlehem, Penn., where he operated coal lands,
which made him rich.  Henry J. Myers, son of Henry and Nancy Myers, and the
subject proper of this sketch, was born in Adams County November 22, 1826.  He
married Belinda M. Slagle, of Hanover, York Co., Penn., and to them were born
Charles, Robert Gates, Jacob Ross, Edward, Annola, all of whom are deceased,
except Jacob Ross (Charles reached his sixteenth year).  Henry J. Myers was
elected to the State Legislature in 1860, and re-elected in 1862, and since 1873
has been agent at New Oxford for the H. J. H. & G. Railroad in connection with
his business, that of a commission merchant and produce dealer.  Ann E. J.,
daughter of Henry and Nancy J. Myers, was born in Adams County; married Dr.
Lewis Stonesifer, of Littlestown, and had one son, A. C. Stonesifer.  After the
Doctor’s death she married J. M. Walter, of Gettysburg, by whom she had one son,
George M., now an attorney at law.  Horatio Gates Myers married and had issue -
Herndon and Elizabeth.  He was a merchant of Hanover, and at the outbreak of the
late war became captain of a company in a Pennsylvania Regiment and died from
exposure, at Verdant Mead. Hagerstown, Md.  Mollie, his widow, married William
Russell, of Lewistown, Penn.  Emily S., daughter of Jacob A. Myers, married
James Ellis, of Pottsville, Penn., attorney for the Philadelphia & Reading
Railroad and member of the Legislature from Schuylkill.  George H. Myers,
president of First National Bank and burgess of Bethlehem, Penn., married Callie
Weiss; Nancy, his sister, wedded F. C. Mattes.  Leigh R., a prominent lawyer of
Bethlehem, Penn., married Kitty Weiss.  William B. resides in Bethlehem, Penn.;
he married a Miss Chapman and has issue.  J. Upton, another son, is a capitalist
in Bethlehem, Penn.  J. Ross, son of our subject, was born near New Chester,
Penn., June 30, 1867; now a student of Ursinus College, Montgomery County, Penn. 
Herndon Myers, son of Horatio Gates Myers, married Edith, daughter of Gen. J.
Irvin Gregg, and resides at Altoona, Penn.  Elizabeth, his sister, married a son
of B. L. Hewitt, of Hollidaysburg, and now resides in Jamestown, Dakota.  Rush,
son of James Buchanan Jameson, is a telegraph operator in Philadelphia, Penn. 
J. B. Jameson, Sr., who was during the late war first lieutenant of the Union
Light Guard, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and commander of President Lincoln’s and
Andrew Johnson’s body-guard, married for his second wife Miss Amanda C. Myers,
of Hanover, and removed to Lake Como, Putnam County, Florida, where he now
lives.

MYERS and JAMESON Families  (from History of Cumberland and Adams Counties)

[Note: Numerals at the left margin are arbitrary sequence numbers for individuals who begin an entry; superscript numerals9 after a given name correspond to the sequence numbers; the probable birth order of siblings is indicated by small roman numerals, small letters, or Arabic numerals (in successive generations).  Surnames in bold indicate the surname of children of married daughters.]
Abbreviations:  b. born, m. married, d. died, dau. daughter, w/o without

1. NICHOLAS MYERS, immigrated from Amsterdam 1753
            Issue: John2, Jacob3, David8, William11, Ludwick12, Nicholas Jr.13, Elizabeth14, Susan15,
               Margaret J.16, Mary17
2.         i. John, m. ___ Sherman
3.         ii. Jacob, b. 1760, m. Hannah Smith; Issue: John4, Philip5, Henry6, Elizabeth7
4.                     a. John, b. 1783, m. (1) Eva Myers, had 5 sons and 3 daughters; m. (2)
                             widow of Adam Myers, and she d. 11 Apr. 1872
5.                     b. Philip, b. Nov. 1788, m. (1) Elizabeth Smyser, who bore 5 sons, 4 daughters;
                            m. (2) Annie Hersh had son Philip who d. 5 Aug. 1881
6.                     c. Henry, b. 1 Apr. 1791; at age 21 m. Nancy26 Jameson; d. 29 Feb. 1868
7.                     d. Elizabeth, m. Peter Myers, had 2 sons and 3 daughters
8.         iii. David, m. Mary Sultzbach, had 3 daughters and 1 son, including:
9.                     a. Margaret, m. Peter Binder, had 4 sons and 1 daughter
10                    b. Elizabeth, m. James25 Jameson, she d. 14 Oct. 1805 ae. 25
11.       iv. William m. ___ Erb
12.       v. Ludwick, m. (1) ___ Erb (sister of above), m. (2) ___ Dull, had 18 children
13.       vi. Nicholas Jr., m. (1) ___ Weaver, m. (2) ___ Chronister; had 26 children
14.       vii. Elizabeth, m. Michael Miller
15.       viii. Susan m. Andrew Albert, had children Jacob and Anna
16.       ix. Margaret J., m. Col. Anthony Kimmel, had 1 son, Anthony
17.       x. Mary, m. ___ Weaver

18. DAVID JAMESON, M.D. of Edinburgh, came to America ca. 1740; Rev. War Colonel, then
     a physician at York, PA; m. Elizabeth Davis
            Issue:   Thomas, James, Horatio G., Cassandra, and Emily
19.       i. Thomas, physician at York until 1838; m. (1) ___ Hahn, who bore Thomas,                                    Catherine20, Charlotte22, Margaret23; m. (2) Mrs. McClellan (who had 2 children), who                     bore Charles24
20.                   a. Catharine P., m. Daniel P. Weiser of York, had issue:
                               Gates J., David, Oliver P.21, James
21                           3. Oliver P., m. ___, had issue: Emily, Grace, Oliver, James
22.                   b. Charlotte, m. Adam J. Glossbrenner, had issue:
                               Emily, Jameson C., Mary, Ivan
23.                   c. Margaret, d. unmarried
24.                   d. Charles, was a Methodist minister near New York
25.       ii. James, a physician at Allentown, m. Elizabeth10 Myers, dau. of David & Mary                                  (Sultzbach) Myers, and had two children: Nancy26, David40
                  James also had two children – Jacob42, b. 7 Nov. 1808, and Daniel43, b. 17 Dec.                          1812 -- by Catherine Siegfried of Egypt, PA, b. 20 Jan. 1786, she m. John Roth and                           had five children by him, she died 15 Aug. 1876; James died 21 Mar. 1831
26.                   a. Nancy, m. Henry6 Myers (her first cousin)
                             Issue: Jacob A.27, Singleton, Henry J.34, Jameson, Ann E. J.36, Horatio G.37,
                                      David P., William
27.                        1) Jacob A., m. Sarah Deardorff of York Springs, resided there, then at
                                 Bethlehem PA, where he operated coal lands which made him rich
                                      Issue: Emily S.28, George H.29, Ellis G., Nancy30, Leigh R.31, William B.32,                                      Jacob U.33
28.                                   (a) Emily S., m. James Ellis of Pottsville PA
29.                                   (b) George H., m. Callie Weiss
30.                                   (d) Nancy, m. F. C. Mattes
31.                                   (e) Leigh R., m. Kitty Weiss
32.                                   (g) William B., m. ___ Chapman
33.                                   (h) Jacob Upton,
34.                          3) Henry J., b. Adams Co. PA 22 Nov. 1826, m. Belinda M. Slagle
                                        Issue: Charles, Robert Gates, Jacob Ross, Edward, Annola
35.                                   (c) Jacob Ross, b. near New Chester PA 30 June 1867
36.                          5) Ann E. J., m. (1) Dr. Lewis Stonesifer, had one son, A. C. Stonesifer;
                                        m. (2) J. M. Walter, had son George M.
37.                          6) Horatio Gates, m., had issue Herndon and Elizabeth
38.                                           (a) Herndon,  m. Edith Gregg, dau. of Gen. J. Irvin Gregg
39.                                           (b) Elizabeth, m. ___ Hewitt, resided in Dakota [Territory]
40.                   b. David, m.  ???; lived 1-1/2 miles E. of Gettysburg
                                    Issue: Henry M., Amelia, Nancy, James B., Rush, Elnora
41.                   c. Jacob (James), b. 7 Nov. 1808
42.                   d. Daniel, b. 17 Dec. 1812
41.       iii. Horatio Gates, b. 1778, m. 3 Aug. 1797 Catharine Shevell, settled in Baltimore and
                 founded the Washington Medical College; had children:
                        Cassandra42, Elizabeth52, Rush44, Catharine45, Alexander C.49, David D.50,                                   Horatio G.51
42.                   a. Cassandra, b. 1798, m. 1832 Rev. William James Gibson of Baltimore;
                                    issue: Catharine, Cassandra, William, Robert
                            Cassandra d. 186-, and Rev. Gibson then m. 187- Elizabeth Murray, had
                            issue Robert & William
43.                               1) Catharine, m. George R. Maze of Chicago
44.                   c. Rush, d. 1837 in military, w/o issue
45.                   d. Catharine, b. at Baltimore 1808, m. 1836 Robert J. Fisher, had 8 children:
                                    George, Catherine, Emily S., Annie, Helen C., David A., [?] Robert S.J.
46.                               2) Catherine, b. at York PA 1837, m. 2 July 1867 James M. Marshall
                                                issue: Kitty F., Ellen M., Robert J., Jonas F. Thomas A., Emily S.
47.                               4) Annie H., b. at York, m. James W. Latimer, had issue:
                                                Catherine J., Janet C., Emily F., Robert Cathcart
48.                               7) Robert S. J., b. at York PA 4 July 1847, m. Harriet Tyler
49.                   e. Alexander C., d. w/o issue
50.                   f. David D., d. 1832 w/o issue
51.                   g. Horatio G. Jr., b. 1815, M.D. 1836, m. 1841 Sarah McCulloch; no issue
52.                   b. Elizabeth, b. 20 Feb 1801 in Wheeling WV, m. 27 Feb. 1821 Rev. John                              Gibson; she d. at York 9 Nov. 1855
                                    issue: Margaretta Rebecca Mitchell53, William56, Horatio G.57, Jameson,                                         John58 and Robert59
53.                               1) Margaretta R. M., m. 1844 Hiram Schissler of Frederick MD; she d.                                             1879
                                                issue: Catherine C.54, Annie M.55, Horatio G., William, John
54.                                           (a) Catherine S. [? C.], b. 1847 at Williamsburg PA, m. 1872 F. J.                                                       Nelson
55.                                           (b) Annie M., m. James H. Hopkins, had issue:
                                                             William F., Kate, James H.
56.                               2) William, Navy Commander, m. at New Orleans 25 Dec. 1868 Mary M.                                         Addison
57.                               3) Horatio Gates, b. at Baltimore 22 May 1827, Colonel in U.S. Artillery,                                            m.  Harriet L. Walker of St. Louis
                                                issue: Annie, Horatio G. J., Catherine F.
58.                               5) John, b. at Baltimore 17 Apr.1829, m. 22 June 1865 Helen Packard
                                                Issue: Robert F., Charlotte, P., John
59.                               6) Robert, b. 1831, d. 1861 at Warrensburg MO, w/o issue

 

1 JAMES JAMESON b: 1771 d: 19 Mar 1831

  + Catharine SIEGFRIED b: 26 Jan 1786 d: 15 Aug 1876

    2 James JAMESON b: 7 Nov 1808

      + Maria (Polly) Worman b: Abt 1813

        3 Mary Jane JAMESON b: 7 May 1833 d: 14 May 1833

        3 Ellen Margaret JAMESON b: 31 Jan 1835

    2 Daniel JAMESON b: 17 Dec 1812

Subject: Horatio Gates Jameson, M. D. of York County, PA Historical Biography
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Horatio Jameson was born in York in 1778, and married August 3, 1797, Catherine Shevell (Chevell), of Somerset, Penn., (where he then abode), and had issue: Cassandra, Elizabeth, Rush, Catherine, Alexander, Cobean, David Davis, and Horatio Gates. He seems to have sojourned, after his marriage, in Somerset, Wheeling, Adamstown, and Gettysburg, until about 1810, when he removed to Baltimore, where he established himself permanently in practice, founded and became president of the Washington Medical College, and at one time, Health Officer of the city. About 1830 Dr. Jameson with his wife and daughter, Elizabeth Gibson, made a voyage to Europe on one of the packets running from Baltimore to the ports of Germany, and visited several places on the continent, but sojourned longest at Copenhagen, Denmark; to and from the American representative at whose court he was accredited as a special bearer of dispatches by the government at Washington. While on his return from a trip to Tex!
as, (where he had purchased lands), the faculty of the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, composed of Drs. Gross, Drake, Rives and Rogers-all celebrities in their profession-tendered him its presidency; accepting which, he removed with his family from Baltimore in March 1836, and resumed practice there. On one or two of his journeys between Texas or the West and Baltimore, he was severely injured by the upsetting of a stagecoach on the mountains of West Virginia, and was unable to rejoin his family for months. His wife, Catherine (Shevell) Jameson, died in Baltimore, November 1, 1837; and he married in 1852, a lady of Baltimore, Hannah J.D. Ely, nee Fearson, (the widow of Judah Ely, Esq., with a son, Jesse Fearson Ely). Within the last year of his life, he left Baltimore and went to York, to spend his last days among the scenes of his childhood-so fondly remembered and graphically described by him in a Baltimore journal in 1842. But the hope and ambition of his life-to obt!
ain and restore to the family his patrimonial homestead and estate-he
never realized; and he died, unprocessed of its acres and domicile, while on a visit to the city of New York in July 1855-the same year in which the ancient homestead was destroyed by fire. His widow survived him nearly thirty years, and died in the city of Baltimore, August 19, 1884, at the ripe age of eighty years.
Dr. Jameson was celebrated for his surgical skill and knowledge, and also had a wide repute for his successful treatment of cholera-epidemic in Baltimore and Philadelphia, 1793-98 and 1832. He wrote several medical works, which were accepted as authority by the profession, and was an able and earnest advocate of the “non-contagion” theory. Like the great Dr. Rush, he belonged to the school of the immortal Sangrado of Gil Bas fame, whose theory of practice obtained even unto the days of the writer. The earliest recollection of the writer’s youth is that of a fine old English engraving, which hung over the mantel in his grandfather’s office. It represented Galen discovering a skeleton in a forest; and neither it, nor the lines engraved beneath, has ever been effaced from the writer’s memory. The latter are reproduced here, as a suggestive indication that the disciples of Galen, in those days, were devout men, fearing God:

Forbear, vain man, to launch with Reason’s eye
Into the vast depths of dark Immensity;
Nor think thy narrow but presumptuous mind,
The least idea of thy God can find;
Though crowding thoughts distract the laboring brain,
How can Finite INFINITE explain.


Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor



[From Medical Annals of Baltimore, by John N. Quinan]

JAMESON, HORATIO G., M. D., BORN IN Pennsylvania, 1778; University of Maryland 1813; Consulting Surgeon Baltimore City Hospital, 1819-35; Consulting Physician Board of Health, Baltimore, 1822-35; Professor of Surgery and Surgical Anatomy, Washington Medical University, 1827-35, and one its incorporators, 1827; Member American Medical Association, 1856; Professor of Surgery Cincinnati Medical College, 1835; member Philosophical Societies of Berlin, Moscow, etc.; editor Maryland Medical Recorder, 1829-32, and ----; died in New York, 1855.
[Gives subjects of Medical works, treatises, et cetera, of which he was the author, published from 1813 to 1856, included in which are two volumes--”American Domestic Medicine, 1817,” and “A Treatise on Cholera, 1854,” and treatise “On Yellow Fever, intended to prove the necessity of V. S. (Blood-letting) in that disease,” and “On the Non-Contagiousness of Yellow Fever,” (read before the Medical Section of the Literary Assembly, held in the city of Hamburg) 1830].
“Dr. H. G. Jameson was no doubt one of the ablest surgeons of his day. He took away, for the first time in the world, nearly the entire Upper Jaw (1830); in May, 1820, he ligated the External Iliac Artery; in 1823, he performed Tracheotomy, the first in Baltimore; in 1824, he excised the Cervix Uteri, (the first in Great Britain or America). He was the first in Baltimore to attempt Ovariotomy.” ---The Surgeons of Baltimore and their Achievements,” (Read before the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, at their meeting in honor of the Sesqui-Centennial of Baltimore, October 13, 1880, by Bernard B. Browne, M. D.). While physician to the Board of Health, Baltimore, he obtained vaccine virus by vaccinating a cow. ---See his report, 1831.”
1820, January, Dr. H. G. Jameson removes the upper maxillae, after trying the carotid. (The first operation of the kind on record).---Gross.
1821, August, Dr. Jameson (H. G.) ligates the external iliac artery for aneurism.
1823, October 20, Dr. Jameson (among the first in Maryland) performs Tracheotomy. He also attempts Ovariotomy, but fails (first attempt in Baltimore). He also (the first in Great Britain or America) excises the Neck of Uterus.
1826, August 25, Dr. Jameson successfully operates for stone.
1827, March 13, Washington College of Washington, Penn., authorizes the establishment of a Medical School in Baltimore. Faculty are H. G. Jameson, Surgery; Samuel K. Jennings, Materia Medica and Therapeutics; William W. Handy, Obstetrics and Diseases of Women; James H. Miller, Practice; Samuel Annan, Anatomy and Physiology; John W. Vethake, Chemistry. They organize and lecture on Holliday Street, opposite the old City Hall.
1831, March 7, Dr. H. G. Jameson secures virus by vaccinating a cow.
1855, Dr. Horatio Gates Jameson ob. At 77 (in New York)


Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor



Medical History

The first physician in York, of whom we have any records, was Dr. David Jameson. He came from Scotland, where he was born and received his medical education, and located in York to practice his profession among the first inhabitants of the town. During the French and Indian wars in 1756, he offered his services in defense of the colonies, and was commissioned a captain, and left his profession to share the dangers on the frontier. He was wounded in an engagement with the Indians near Fort Lyttleton, at Sideling Hill, on the road from Carlisle to Pittsburg, and was left for dead on the field. He afterward discharged the duties of brigade major and lieutenant colonel.
During the Revolutionary was he held the position of colonel. Notwithstanding his position in battle was that of a warrior, he also attended to the duties of surgeon, and at the battle of Kitanning, he dressed the wound of Gen. Armstrong, who was shot in the shoulder. He was a man of some wealth in those days and contributed liberally of his means to support of his country. He was the father of Dr. Horatio Gates Jameson, who was born in York in 1778, and succeeded his father in the practice of medicine at York, for a short time, and afterward removed to Baltimore, where he established himself permanently in practice, founded and became president of the Washington Medical College, and at one time health officer of the city. Dr. Jameson was celebrated for his surgical skill and knowledge, and also had a wide reputation for his successful treatment of cholera epidemic in Baltimore and Philadelphia, (1793-98) and 1832. In 1835 he accepted the presidency of the Ohio Medical Coll!
ege, and held the position until 1836, when he resigned and removed to Baltimore. In 1854 he again returned to York, to spend his last days among the scenes of his childhood. He died while on a visit to New York City, to investigate cholera, which was raging in the city at the time, in July 1855.
While Dr. Jameson resided at Baltimore his brother, Dr. Thomas Jameson, practiced medicine in York, and in all important cases, especially those requiring surgical skill, Prof. Jameson was called from Baltimore in consultation. In 1850 he performed the first operation for Ovariotomy attempted in York County on Mrs. Hoke, of Paradise now Jackson Township. The lady died during the operation. Dr. Jameson was a member of the American Medical Association; member of the philosophical societies of Berlin, Moscow, etc., and editor of the Maryland Medical Record, 1829-32. He was also the author of several medical works. Among these were two volumes on “American Domestic Medicine,” 1817. “A Treatise on Cholera,” 1856, and “A Treatise on Yellow Fever, intended to prove the necessity of blood letting in that disease,” and “the non contagiousness of yellow fever.”
Dr. H. G. Jameson, no doubt one of the ablest surgeons of his day. He took away for the first time in the world nearly the entire upper jaw (1830); in May 1820, he ligated the external iliac artery; in 1823, he performed tracheotomy, the first in Baltimore; in 1824 he excised the cervix uteri (the first in Great Britain or America). He was the first in Baltimore to attempt Ovariotomy. In 1831, while physician to the board of health, he obtained vaccine virus by vaccinating a cow. He was the preceptor of Profs. Smith and Gross, and was on the most intimate terms with these great surgeons. As he was born, raised and died while his domicile was in York County, practiced his profession here for some time, and claimed York as his home, we claim especially his history as part of the medical history of York County, and therefore feel justified in giving this extended notice of perhaps the most eminent man York County has yet produced.
Dr. Thomas Jameson, son of Dr. David Jameson and brother to Prof. Jameson, practiced medicine in York until 1838, when he died while on a visit to his brother, Dr. H. G. Jameson, in Baltimore. Dr. Thomas Jameson resided in Paradise, now Jackson Township, at a place known as Spangler’s tavern on the Gettysburg turnpike, about nine miles from York, from 1832 to 1837. He had an extensive practice among the country people, and was elected coroner in 1808, and held that office until 1818. He was also elected sheriff in October 1821, and held office until 1824, and was more extensively known throughout York County in his time than any physician before, or after him.
Dr. Thomas Jameson was excessively fond of sport, and was one of the greatest cockfight in the county.
His second wife was a widow named McClellan with two children, one named Henry M. McClellan, afterward the well known Dr. Henry M. McClellan, who read medicine with step father, Dr. Thomas Jameson, and upon the death of Dr, Thomas Jameson in 1838, he acquired the greater part of his practice, and retained it and the confidence of the people, until he died August 7, 1869, aged sixty years.


Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor

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Worman's of Eastern PA ·  ID: I24 ·  Name: JAMES JAMESON ·  Given Name: JAMES ·  Surname: JAMESON ·  NPFX: DR ·  Sex: M ·  Birth: 1771 in Adams Co., PA 1 1 ·  Death: 19 Mar 1831 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA ·  Burial: Old Allentown Cem ·  Occupation: Dr James Jameson was a surgeon. 1 ·  LDS Baptism: 12 Jul 1904 Temple: LOGAN - Logan, UT ·  Endowment: Bef 1970 ·  Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 at 15:21 Marriage 1 Catharine SIEGFRIED b: 26 Jan 1786 in USA Married: Abt 1807 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA 1 1 Sealing Spouse: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 Children James JAMESON b: 7 Nov 1808 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA Daniel JAMESON b: 17 Dec 1812 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA Sources: Abbrev: Swiss Family Worman Author: Dorothy Elsie Worman-1985 NOTE BY RAJ: “James” Jameson, son of Dr. James Jameson, was born 7 Nov 1808 and had as his given name Jacobus according to records of the Egypt Reformed Church. Decendancy: 1 JAMES JAMESON b: 1771 d: 19 Mar 1831   + Catharine SIEGFRIED b: 26 Jan 1786 d: 15 Aug 1876     2 James JAMESON b: 7 Nov 1808       + Maria (Polly) Worman b: Abt 1813         3 Mary Jane JAMESON b: 7 May 1833 d: 14 May 1833         3 Ellen Margaret JAMESON b: 31 Jan 1835     2 Daniel JAMESON b: 17 Dec 1812 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ·  ID: I12 ·  Name: Maria (Polly) Worman ·  Given Name: Maria (Polly) ·  Surname: Worman ·  Sex: F ·  Birth: Abt 1813 in Lehigh Co., PA ·  Death: Y ·  LDS Baptism: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Endowment: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Sealing Child: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 at 15:21 Father: J Henry Worman b: 30 Jan 1779 in Upper Milford Twp., Lehigh Co., PA Mother: Maria Barbara GROSS b: 5 Mar 1782 in Lehigh Co., PA Marriage 1 James JAMESON b: 7 Nov 1808 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA Married: Abt 1832 in Lehigh Co., PA Sealing Spouse: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 Children Mary Jane JAMESON b: 7 May 1833 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA Ellen Margaret JAMESON b: 31 Jan 1835 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Worman's of Eastern PA Entries: 1446    Updated: 2007-08-16 21:21:02 UTC (Thu)    Contact: Susan Lucykanish ·  ID: I55 ·  Name: Daniel JAMESON ·  Given Name: Daniel ·  Surname: JAMESON 1 1 ·  Sex: M ·  Birth: 17 Dec 1812 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA ·  Christening: 16 Feb 1813 Egypt Ref Church, Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA ·  Death: Y ·  LDS Baptism: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Endowment: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Sealing Child: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 at 15:21 Father: JAMES JAMESON b: 1771 in Adams Co., PA Mother: Catharine SIEGFRIED b: 26 Jan 1786 in USA Sources: Abbrev: Swiss Family Worman Author: Dorothy Elsie Worman-1985 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Worman's of Eastern PA Entries: 1446    Updated: 2007-08-16 21:21:02 UTC (Thu)    Contact: Susan Lucykanish ·  ID: I23 ·  Name: Catharine SIEGFRIED ·  Given Name: Catharine ·  Surname: SIEGFRIED 1 1 ·  Sex: F ·  Birth: 26 Jan 1786 in USA ·  Death: 15 Aug 1876 in South Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA ·  Burial: Egypt Cem ·  LDS Baptism: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Endowment: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 at 15:21 Marriage 1 JAMES JAMESON b: 1771 in Adams Co., PA Married: Abt 1807 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA 1 1 Sealing Spouse: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 Children James JAMESON b: 7 Nov 1808 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA Daniel JAMESON b: 17 Dec 1812 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA Marriage 2 John ROTH b: 23 Feb 1787 in South Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA Married: 1817 in South Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA Sealing Spouse: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 Children John ROTH b: 17 Sep 1818 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA Paul ROTH b: 28 Sep 1820 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA M Magdalena ROTH b: 4 Oct 1822 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA Maria ROTH b: 8 Oct 1823 in Lehigh Co., PA Sarah (Salome) ROTH b: 31 Dec 1825 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA Sources: Abbrev: Swiss Family Worman Author: Dorothy Elsie Worman-1985 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Descendancy  for John Roth: ·  ID: I51 ·  Name: John ROTH ·  Given Name: John ·  Surname: ROTH 1 1 ·  Sex: M ·  Birth: 23 Feb 1787 in South Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA ·  Christening: 8 Apr 1787 Zion Reformed Church, Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA ·  Death: 28 Feb 1826 in South Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA ·  Burial: Egypt Cem ·  LDS Baptism: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Endowment: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Sealing Child: Cleared 2 Oct 2001 ·  Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 at 15:21 Father: Peter ROTH b: 21 Oct 1760 in Lehigh Co., PA Mother: Julianna Margaret MUSGENUNG b: 1 Feb 1758 in <, , PA> Marriage 1 Catharine SIEGFRIED b: 26 Jan 1786 in USA Married: 1817 in South Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA Sealing Spouse: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 Children John ROTH b: 17 Sep 1818 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA Paul ROTH b: 28 Sep 1820 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA M Magdalena ROTH b: 4 Oct 1822 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA Maria ROTH b: 8 Oct 1823 in Lehigh Co., PA Sarah (Salome) ROTH b: 31 Dec 1825 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA Sources: Abbrev: Swiss Family Worman Author: Dorothy Elsie Worman-1985

 

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1/ I am a document trader & collector & recently purchased an authentic & original 1779 revolutionary war muster roll for Captain David Strauss's Company of Hereford Township, Berks County, PA. One of the names on the list is Andreas Siegfried. If anyone can offer any information on Mr. Siegfried, please e-mail me at softdsign@aol.com or the address above. I can share some very interesting history about Captain Strauss's company.

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