Adam Jamison Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Beetown, Biographical Sketches, Page 1020 

ADAM JAMISON, farmer, Secs. 29, 31, 32; P. O. Beetown; born in 1803 in Cabarrus 
Co., N. C., where he resided until 15 years of age, then to Pike Co., Mo.; lived 
there until 1845; then to Johnson Co., Ill., and, in 1848, he came to Grant Co., 
Wis.; located in the village of Beetown. Married, in 1830, to Miss Nancy 
Sherwood, a daughter of William Sherwood; has been a miner and farmer for many 
years; has 120 acres of land; has six children - James W., John A., Nancy J., 
Adam W., William H. and Sarah B.  Is a member of tile Presbyterian Church. Has 
been Justice of the Peace two terms; was Constable two terms; was School 
Director two terms. Politics, Democratic.