Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Jamison, George Maj.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Warwick Township


   MAJOR GEORGE JAMISON (deceased), son of John Jamison, was 
born in Warwick, Bucks county, Pa., March 27, 1807.  He was 
a descendant of Henry Jamison, of Scotch ancestry, who 
emigrated to America, and settled in 1724 on a tract of five 
hundred acres in the center of this township, including the 
ground on which the village and post-office of Jamison now 
stand.  George, when a boy, attended the common schools of 
the vicinity and the classical academy of Rev. R. B. 
Bellville, pastor of Neshaminy Presbyterian church, under 
whose instructions he pursued the study of Latin and other 
branches of an academical education.  Having married Miss 
Louisa Stucker, of Warrington, he devoted himself to 
agriculture, in which he was very successful.  He was 
interested in military affairs and was major in the state 
militia.  Having an active, inquiring mind, he employed his 
leisure hours in reading, and was very familiar with books 
and periodicals.  For many years he owned a share in the 
Hatboro public library, and was repeatedly chosen one of its 
directors.  A regular attendant for a long time of Neshaminy 
Presbyterian church, he was for years one of the trustees 
and secretary of the board.  He was interested in the 
education of youth, and in company with his relative, 
William Jamison, before the adoption of the present school 
system, he built a school-house in the neighborhood of his 
residence, which for a generation bore the name of 
ÒJamison's school-house.Ó  He had four children, two sons 
and two daughtersÓ  John and George W.; Elizabeth, who 
married Stephen Yerkes, of Warminster; and Jane, who became 
the wife of William Conard, of Philadelphia. In the latter 
part of his life he transferred his business to his sons, 
and resided in Hatboro, where he died, universally 
respected, January 31, 1886, nearly 79 years of age.