Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Horatio Gates Jameson and Hannah G. D. Fearson




Husband Horatio Gates Jameson 1 2

           Born: 1778 - York, York Co, PA 1 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 26 Aug 1855 - New York City, NY 3
         Buried: 


         Father: Dr. David Jameson (      -Abt 1800) 1 2 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Davis (      -Abt 1822) 1 2 5


       Marriage: 1852 2

   Other Spouse: Catharine Shevell (      -1837) 1 2 - 3 Aug 1797 1 2



Wife Hannah G. D. Fearson 2

            AKA: Hannah J. D. Fearson 3
           Born: 1804 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 17 Aug 1884 - Baltimore, MD 3
         Buried:  - St. Paul's Cemetery


         Father: Capt. Jesse Fearson (      -      ) 3
         Mother: 



   Other Spouse: Judah Ely, Esq. (      -Bef 1852) 3


Children

General Notes: Husband - Horatio Gates Jameson


He married, and they resided in Somerset, Pennsylvania; Wheeling, Virginia; Adams Town, Pennsylvania; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and removed in
1810 to Baltimore, Maryland.

He studied medicine and became a very eminent physician. He practised for more than forty years in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the founder and president of the Washington Medical College of that city, and the first president of the Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Jameson was very celebrated for his surgical knowledge and skill. He won a wide reputation for his successful treatment of the cholera, which was epidemic in 1832 in Philadelphia and in Baltimore. He wrote several medical books which were accepted as authority by the profession. Dr. Jameson spent some time with his family in Europe, and his distinguished learning and ability were recognized in the medical and surgical circles of the continent. He died while on a visit to New York city. Dr. Jameson left in manuscript a memoir of his distinguished father, Col. David Jameson, M. D., which was printed but not published by his grandson, Gen. Horatio Gates Jameson Gibson, U. S. A., to which was added an interesting appendix of genealogy and memoranda.

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Sources


1 Editor, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 499.

2 E. O. Jameson, The Jamesons in America, 1647 - 1900 (Boston, MA: The Rumford Press, 1901), Pg 90.

3 E. O. Jameson, The Jamesons in America, 1647 - 1900 (Boston, MA: The Rumford Press, 1901), Pg 94.

4 John Gibson, History of York County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886), Pg 456.

5 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 95.


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