BIO: MYERS and JAMESON Families, New Oxford, Adams County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Francis Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/adams/ _______________________________________________ History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886 _______________________________________________ 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.