Norfolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Jameson, Arthur Orcutt 1859 - 1881
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Author: E. O. Jameson (1886)

ARTHUR ORCUTT JAMESON, A. B.

   ARTHUR ORCUTT JAMESON, son of the Rev. E. O. and Mary Joanna (Cogswell)
Jameson, was born Nov. 25, 1859, m Concord, N. H. He entered, in 1873, the
Roxbury Latin School, Boston Highlands, Mass., and completed the course of study
in four years, under the instruction of William C. Collar, A. M. He took the
first rank in the Latin School, and graduated in 1881, the first scholar in his
class, from Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. After graduation he received an
appointment as the teacher of classics and mathematics in the Arnold School, New
York City. But a few days before he was to assume this position he was taken
suddenly ill, and died Sept. 30, 1881, at the age of twenty-one years. His
burial took place Oct. 5, 1881, in the Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, N. H. The
spot overlooks the place of his birth and the Merrimac River, on whose banks
much of his boyhood was spent. He was a young man as noble in character as he
was brilliant in scholarship. He made a public confession of Christ at the age
of sixteen years and united Nov. 7, 1875, with the church of which his father
was the pastor. His early death was widely lamented, not only as a private
affliction but as a loss to the world of one who gave promise of distinguished
influence and usefulness. The following letter, received among many others by
the afflicted family, from the Rev. George A. Gordon, then of Greenwich, Conn.,
and since pastor of the Old South Church, Boston, Mass., shows in what
estimation Mr. Jameson was held by his fellow students:
                                 "GREENWICH, Oct. 8, 1881.
"MR. AND MRS. JAMESON.

   "Dear afflicted, though unknown friends: I have just learned with deep sorrow
of the death of my admired and much respected classmate, Arthur Orcutt Jameson.
I am so much pained and shocked at the sad news that I cannot forbear offering
you my sincere and sorrowful sympathy in your great grief. Mr. Jameson and
myself had in part the same elective studies for two years, and from what I saw
of him in the classroom and elsewhere, I had acquired a profound admiration for
his scholarship, and an affectionate appreciation of his elevated and manly
character. I was always deeply interested in him and so knew him much better
than he knew me. His memory is and will be to me a constant inspiration in
thought, principle, character, and devotion. In accuracy and comprehensiveness
of intellect, and in natural power of acquisition, I never knew his superior,
scarcely his equal. At this moment as I think of his massive and serene face,
now still in death, I am burdened with a personal sorrow, and cannot but feel,
'How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod.' 
               " Yours, with great respect and true sympathy,
                              "GEORGE A. GORDON."


Additional Comments:
THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS,
AND
The Genealogical Records
OF
MANY EARLY AND OTHER FAMILIES
IN
MEDWAY, MASS. 1713-1886.
Illustrated
WITH NUMEROUS STEEL AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
BY
E. O. JAMESON,
THE AUTHOR OK "THE COGSWELLS IN AMERICA," "THE HISTORY OF MEDWAY, MASS." ETC.
MILLIS, MASS. 1886.

Copyright, 1886.
E. O. JAMESON, MILLIS, MASS.
All Rights Reserved.

J. A. & R. A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I.


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