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PROF. ROBERT D. JAMISON, a prominent farmer and stock raiser, was born April 13, 1838, in Rutherford County, and is the son of Henry D. and Sarah W. (Thomas) Jamison. The father, a well-known saddler and farmer, came here at an early date and settled at Murfreesboro, where he remained for fifteen years. He then moved on a farm near a place where he has since resided. He was secretary and treasurer of the Murfreesboro & Nashville Turnpike Company, was a follower of the old Whig party and a successful farmer, having a large estate at the time of his death, which occurred in March, 1858. Our subject was reared on a farm and received a good education at Thomson Academy, in Williamson County. At the age of eighteen he taught school in Williamson County for a year and a half. After his father’s death he took charge of the farm, which he conducted until 1861. In 1865 he purchased a farm in the vicinity of Murfreesboro, erected a schoolhouse and taught school and attended the farm until 1878, when he took charge of Union University, conducting it in an able manner for five years. He then retired from a professional life to a farm that he had purchased near Murfreesboro, and where he now resides. December 26, 1860, he was married to Miss Camilla T. Patterson, of this county, and to them were born seven children, one dying in infancy: those living are Atha T., Evis C., Samuel P., Henry D., Ella and Maddie. Mr. Jamison is an unswerving Democrat. He enlisted in 1861 as private in Company D, Forty-fifth Tennessee Regiment of Infantry, and was promoted to surgeon of ambulance train. Mr. Jamison is a member of the K. of H., and he and wife are members of the Baptist Church.