Robert S. Jamison Biography This biography appears on pages 879-880 in "History of Dakota Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://usgwarchives.org/sd/sdfiles.htm ROBERT S. JAMISON. Robert S. Jamison is heavily interested financially in a number of important corporate concerns of Deadwood and the surrounding country and his time is taken up by the care of his interests and the executive control of some of the corporations. He is president of the Dakota Mining & Milling Company, of the Peoples Gas Company and of the Black Hills Trust & Savings Bank and his ability to secure the cooperation of the officials under him and to decide wisely far-reaching questions of policy is a determining factor in the growth and prosperity of the concerns of which he is the head. He was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, on the 3d of May, 1870, a son of Robert S. and Caroline (Wible) Jamison, both natives of that locality. The family is of Scotch descent and was first represented in America about 1730. The father was a pioneer coal operator and very prominent in mining circles in the early days. He passed away in 1902 at Redlands, California, and was survived by his widow until 1905. Robert S. Jamison was the seventh in order of birth in a family of ten children, seven brothers of whom survive. He received his early education in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and subsequently was a member of the class of 1892 of Princeton University, taking a special course in civil engineering. He followed that profession for a number of years in Greensburg, being employed by the coal operators there. He worked in connection with the firm of Jamison & Fogg, civil engineers, and gained much valuable experience in his profession. In 1895 he went to the Pacific coast, locating in Seattle, Washington, where he was engineer for a mining company, but in the spring of 1898 he removed to Deadwood and became interested in mines there. He was identified with the American Express on Sheep Tail Gulch, out of which grew the Imperial Mining Company, and his work as general manager of that concern gave full scope to his developing powers of administration. His marked ability as an executive has been recognized, as he is now president of the Dakota Mining & Milling Company in the Bald mountain district, president of the Peoples Gas Company, which supplies light to Lead and Deadwood, and president of the Black Hills Trust & Savings Bank of Deadwood. He is the chief stockholder in the Peoples Gas Company and was one of the organizers of the bank mentioned. The responsibilities devolving upon him as head of these concerns and the care of his vested interests demand practically all of his time and attention. He attributes his success to his power of concentration, his definiteness of purpose and the energy and persistency with which he has worked toward the desired goal. On the 8th of December, 1904, Mr. Jamison was united in marriage in Denver, Colorado, to Miss Emma Patrick, a native of Austin, Texas. They have an adopted daughter. Mr. Jamison is a republican but has confined his political activity to the exercise of his right of suffrage. Fraternally he is a member of Lodge No. 508, B. P. O. E., of Deadwood, and he also belongs to the Deadwood Business Men's Club, being heartily in sympathy with its efforts to promote the commercial expansion of the city. The industrial and financial life of Deadwood and the section of which it is the center has felt the impress of Mr. Jamison's personality and his influence has always made for steady and normal growth.