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| Robert Jamieson, farmer, sec. 22, Chippewa Tp., was born July 6, 1845, on the Isle of Islay, and is the fifth child of Donald and Margaret (McDougall) Jamieson, the former a native of the Isle of Bute, the latter born on the Isle of Jura. (The Islands named on in the Atlantic Ocean, west of and belonging to Scotland.) The parents came to Canada in 1860, where the mother died in 1864, and the father in 1882. Mr. Jamieson attained a fair education in his native country, and came with his parents to America, and resided a year with them in the Dominion. He came to Michigan in, 1861; and in 1867 he located in Chippewa Tp., this county, in which year several other settlers made their entries of land and began with energy the work of clearing and settling that part of wilderness. Mr. Jamieson was married in 1868, to Minnie, daughter of John and Mena (Licker) Martiny, born in Syracuse, N.Y., in 1850. Her parents were natives of Germany, and pioneer settlers of Mecosta County, being the first permanent residents of Martiny Tp., which received their name. (See sketch of John Martiny.) Mr. and Mrs. Jamieson have had three children: Donald, John, and Alexander. |