Progressive Men of Iowa
1899

JAMISON, James Harvey, of Osceola, Clarke county, is an Iowan in every sense of the word, for he was born in Clarke county, March 11, 1859, and has worked for the upbuilding of the state since he has grown to manhood. His father, Robert Jamison, was born in Logan county, Ky., in 1816. He went from there to Indiana and came to Iowa in 1847 and to Clarke county in 1850 where he entered the first quarter section of government land ever entered in that county. He still lives there, owning 400 acres of land and is rated at about $30,000. He is of Scotch-Irish descent. The mother, Christena Kyte Jamison, is of German descent. She was born in Indiana in 1818 and married Robert Jamison in 1845, and is still living with him on the farm in Clarke county. 

James H. received his first education in the district school and afterwards attended the academy at Garden Grove, Iowa, under the instruction of Prof. R. A. Harkness, now of Parsons college at Fairfield. He also graduated in the commercial course at Valparaiso college in 1881, and took the scientific course in 1882-83. He taught school during the years 1886-87 and commenced the study of law with McIntyre Bros., in Osceola, in 1888. He was admitted to the bar at the May term of the supreme court in 1890, and at once formed a partnership with McIntyre Bros, under the firm name of McIntyre Bros. & Jamison, of which he is still a member.

Mr.  Jamison has always been an active member in the republican party, and in the fall of 1891 received the republican nomination for state senator from the Eleventh senatorial district, consisting of the counties of Clarke and Warren. He was elected and served in the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth General Assemblies and proved himself an earnest and willing worker, the elements necessary for an efficient senator.  He was the originator of much beneficial legislation, being the author of the senate bill establishing a code commission for the revision of the code, and was also author of a resolution for woman suffrage in the Twenty-fifth General Assembly, and took active part in a great deal of other important legislation. It may be said of Mr.  Jamison that he is one of the brightest and most successful young lawyers in all southern Iowa, and has won for himself a reputation for honesty and sincerity of purpose and untiring zeal in the practice of his profession, which are sure to someday bring him to the topmost round of the ladder of fortune. He has never married.

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