BIO: Dr. David JAMISON, Chambersburg, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 70 
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DR. DAVID JAMISON

Dr. Jamison was a young physician, a native of Baltimore, who came to 
Chambersburg in the spring of 1832 and began the practice of medicine.  He died 
in October of this same year in Chambersburg, after a few hours illness with 
cholera.

Dr. Jamison was a son of Dr. Horatio Gates Jamison, born 1778, married Catherine 
Shevell of Somerset, Pa.  Dr. Jamison practiced medicine at a number of places 
in Pennsylvania, the last place being Gettysburg.  In 1810 he removed to 
Baltimore, Md., where he became found and president of the Washington Medical 
College of Baltimore.  A number of the earlier practitioners of Franklin County 
were graduates of this Washington Medical College.