BIO:  James L. JAMISON, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Wrightsville Borough and Hellam Township, Pg 78

JAMES L. JAMISON, M. D., son of William and Catherine Jamison, of Wrightsville, 
was born January 20, 1855.  Until the age of fourteen his boyhood was passed at 
Wrightsville; he then went to Philadelphia, where he was in the employ of Dr. F. 
Getchell until seventeen years of age, when he returned to Wrightsville, and 
entered the employ of Kerr, Cook & Co., lime burners.  October 29, 1873, he 
entered the preparatory department of Lincoln University, graduated therefrom in 
June, 1875, and the following September entered the collegiate department, from 
which he graduated June 3, 1879.  His summer vacation of 1875 was spent in the 
Catskill Mountains; that of 1876 at Newport; that of 1877 at Cape May, and that 
of 1878 was spent canvassing Newark and Elkton, Md.  In June, 1879, he returned 
to Wrightsville, studied medicine under Dr. D. A. Stubbs, of Oxford, Chester 
County, entered Jefferson Medical College in the fall of 1879, graduated March 
30, 1882, and in June began his profession in his native town, where he has 
since built up a large practice.  August 27, 1884, he married Francenia, 
daughter of Peter and Carrie Baldwin, of Lower Oxford, Chester County.  The 
Doctor is a member of the Presbyterian Church of Lincoln, and the Alumni of 
Jefferson Medical College.  He has had the care of his mother since boyhood, his 
father being infirm.