Chapman WI Tweedsmuir Community History Volume 2, [1950] - [1979], p. 6

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..=_~_.â€".â€"_â€" .... _______.â€"..â€"_ ““hâ€" _â€"_ £195- JAMIESON, FOUNDER or TWEED â€" 2 I{AVEInherited much of his father's Tweed property. The Village of Tweed had bemllaid out by Mr. Jamieson in 1850, when he began to sell building lots Afiwr his father's death James Coleman Jamieson continued to sell these lots TheEFiSt and saw mills, also inherited from his father, were sold in 1870 to GeorgelEasterbrook. James C. Jamieson married Louisa M. Bowell, a daughter of Mackenzie Bowell, latMTa Prime Minister of Canada. About 1875 he left Tweed for Belleville, where hevms managing director for the Belleville Intelligencer. About 1896 he went to St.3fiu1a Minnesota, where he died in 1924, age 80, leaving two sons, James N. Jafleson and Mackenzie B. Jamieson. Another son, John, died of typhoid in 1892. James Jamieson, Sr., also had a daughter, Lucy Coleman Jamieson, who mnmied Rev. Jacob E. Howell. She was born in Belleville in 1841, and following Ran Howell's death in 1905 she returned to Belleville and died there, leaving twosons, Dr. A. J. Howell, Michigan, and w. B. L. Howell, at that time principal oflbrt Arthur Collegiate Institute, also two daughters, Mrs. B. A. Edkins, mncago, and Mrs. F. S. Deacon, Belleville. /./ 0/7 - / , W_. /'- -"/"""“4’”"}/yr,£ This photograph of James Jamieson came from an old scrapbook started by Emir Dyer, whose father, Daniel Y. Dyer operated the old Tweed Woolen Mill before 1875. The Dyer and the Huyck families were related, and the scrapbook was sent to Tweed by C. B. thck of Vancouver. Emir Dyer married Richard T. Horton and went to Castleton, north Dakota. The photograph is inscribed on the back "Mr. Jamieson, died Nov.16, 1865. Lucy Jamieson to Emir Dyer, September 14, 1867”.

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