R. H. Jamison, 76, who lived his entire life on the ranch where he was born just north of Santa Clara, died yesterday in a local hospital where he had been for the past 10 days. He had been ill for a year.
Jamison was the son of the late Samuel I. and Sue Jamison and the husband of the late Lydia A. Jamison. The elder Jamison came to California from Maryland in 1849 and settled on Coffin road in Santa Clara county a short time later. S.I. Jamison was a county supervisor and a state assembly man from the Santa Clara district.
R. H. Jamison was appointed road mater of Jefferson, Agnew and Cupertino districts in 1895 by the late Supervisor John Roll. Jamison served in the road master job for 30 years under Roll, two years under the late P. J. Martin, and three years under Supervisor Joseph M. McKinnon.
Jamison quite the road master post in 1930 to devote the last years of his life to operating his pear orchard on Coffin road, a portion of the old family ranch.
He as the father of Emma V. Jamison off Santa Clara and the brother of Pauline Alexander, Lucretia Pomeroy, Eva Southerland, Florence Vollmer and Arnold Jamison. all of San Jose and Frank, Samuel and Relfe Jamison, all of Santa Clara.
He was an active member of the California Pioneers society of Santa Clara county. Funeral services will be held Monday at 1:30 p. m. from the Amos Williams funeral chapel, followed by interment at Oak Hill cemetery.
San Jose Mercury Herald; May 6, 1938; San Jose, California; P2, C2
Jamison was the son of the late Samuel I. and Sue Jamison and the husband of the late Lydia A. Jamison. The elder Jamison came to California from Maryland in 1849 and settled on Coffin road in Santa Clara county a short time later. S.I. Jamison was a county supervisor and a state assembly man from the Santa Clara district.
R. H. Jamison was appointed road mater of Jefferson, Agnew and Cupertino districts in 1895 by the late Supervisor John Roll. Jamison served in the road master job for 30 years under Roll, two years under the late P. J. Martin, and three years under Supervisor Joseph M. McKinnon.
Jamison quite the road master post in 1930 to devote the last years of his life to operating his pear orchard on Coffin road, a portion of the old family ranch.
He as the father of Emma V. Jamison off Santa Clara and the brother of Pauline Alexander, Lucretia Pomeroy, Eva Southerland, Florence Vollmer and Arnold Jamison. all of San Jose and Frank, Samuel and Relfe Jamison, all of Santa Clara.
He was an active member of the California Pioneers society of Santa Clara county. Funeral services will be held Monday at 1:30 p. m. from the Amos Williams funeral chapel, followed by interment at Oak Hill cemetery.
San Jose Mercury Herald; May 6, 1938; San Jose, California; P2, C2
R. H. Jamison, 76, who lived his entire life on the ranch where he was born just north of Santa Clara, died yesterday in a local hospital where he had been for the past 10 days. He had been ill for a year.
Jamison was the son of the late Samuel I. and Sue Jamison and the husband of the late Lydia A. Jamison. The elder Jamison came to California from Maryland in 1849 and settled on Coffin road in Santa Clara county a short time later. S.I. Jamison was a county supervisor and a state assembly man from the Santa Clara district.
R. H. Jamison was appointed road mater of Jefferson, Agnew and Cupertino districts in 1895 by the late Supervisor John Roll. Jamison served in the road master job for 30 years under Roll, two years under the late P. J. Martin, and three years under Supervisor Joseph M. McKinnon.
Jamison quite the road master post in 1930 to devote the last years of his life to operating his pear orchard on Coffin road, a portion of the old family ranch.
He as the father of Emma V. Jamison off Santa Clara and the brother of Pauline Alexander, Lucretia Pomeroy, Eva Southerland, Florence Vollmer and Arnold Jamison. all of San Jose and Frank, Samuel and Relfe Jamison, all of Santa Clara.
He was an active member of the California Pioneers society of Santa Clara county. Funeral services will be held Monday at 1:30 p. m. from the Amos Williams funeral chapel, followed by interment at Oak Hill cemetery.
San Jose Mercury Herald; May 6, 1938; San Jose, California; P2, C2
Jamison was the son of the late Samuel I. and Sue Jamison and the husband of the late Lydia A. Jamison. The elder Jamison came to California from Maryland in 1849 and settled on Coffin road in Santa Clara county a short time later. S.I. Jamison was a county supervisor and a state assembly man from the Santa Clara district.
R. H. Jamison was appointed road mater of Jefferson, Agnew and Cupertino districts in 1895 by the late Supervisor John Roll. Jamison served in the road master job for 30 years under Roll, two years under the late P. J. Martin, and three years under Supervisor Joseph M. McKinnon.
Jamison quite the road master post in 1930 to devote the last years of his life to operating his pear orchard on Coffin road, a portion of the old family ranch.
He as the father of Emma V. Jamison off Santa Clara and the brother of Pauline Alexander, Lucretia Pomeroy, Eva Southerland, Florence Vollmer and Arnold Jamison. all of San Jose and Frank, Samuel and Relfe Jamison, all of Santa Clara.
He was an active member of the California Pioneers society of Santa Clara county. Funeral services will be held Monday at 1:30 p. m. from the Amos Williams funeral chapel, followed by interment at Oak Hill cemetery.
San Jose Mercury Herald; May 6, 1938; San Jose, California; P2, C2
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