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| | PROPERTY OF A LADY JOHN JAMESON (1842-1864) SARANAC WATERS SIGNED IN MONOGRAM AND DATED "J.S.J.... (Lot 15) |
 | | Jameson's remarkable prodigiousness in both those arts was not only noted during his lifetime, but was also memorialized after his tragic early death in the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, in 1864. |
 | | Jameson was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on March 25, 1842, the son of John Jameson, a professional organist, and his wife, Rachel, a celebrated soprano. |
 | | Jameson's remains were then reinterred in Hartford and his company chaplain, the Rev. Theodore J. Holmes, undertook the memorial volume that is the only record of Jameson's accomplishments. |
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