Benjamin Ursery Jamison is the cashier of the Elizabeth (Colo.) State Bank and one of its stockholders. He was born on a farm in Franklin County, Virginia, October 19, 1860, but since 1892 has made his home in Colorado. His parents were Wiley P. and Emma Jamison. The grandfather in the paternal line was Scotch and the great grandfather in the maternal line was a resident of Lunenburg county, Virginia. The family was established in that locality at a very early period in the colonization of the new world.
Benjamin U. Jamison pursued his education in the public schools near his father's home and remained a resident of the Old Dominion until 1883, when he started out for himself, going to Missouri. He located at Pendleton, in Warren county, and was there employed as telegraph operator and station agent. In 1892 he removed to Colorado and in 1894 took up his abode at Elizabeth, where for twenty-four years he has largely made his home. He was station agent at Elizabeth until about 1899 and in 1904 he became connected with the banking business at Arvada, Colorado, where he remained until 1906. He then returned to Elizabeth and has since been closely identified with her business and financial interests. The population of the town is about three hundred and the prosperity of its citizens as well as the farmers in the vicinity is shown by the fact that the deposits in the State Bank of Elizabeth amounted to two hundred and forty thousand dollars on the 31st of August, 1918, and at this writing, in October, 1918, have passed the quarter million mark. Mr. Jamison is the cashier and one of the stockholders in the bank and the success of the institution is attributable in large measure to his enterprise and thorough understanding of the banking business. He is doing everything in his power to develop the institution and his labors have been most effective. He is likewise a stockholder in the Arvada Band and one of the directors of the Elbert County Bank of Elbert. He is thus extending his interests in banking and has made for himself a creditable position in financial circles of this section of the state.
History of Colorado, Vol 4, Wilbur Fiske Stone, 1919
Benjamin Ursery Jamison is the cashier of the Elizabeth (Colo.) State Bank and one of its stockholders. He was born on a farm in Franklin County, Virginia, October 19, 1860, but since 1892 has made his home in Colorado. His parents were Wiley P. and Emma Jamison. The grandfather in the paternal line was Scotch and the great grandfather in the maternal line was a resident of Lunenburg county, Virginia. The family was established in that locality at a very early period in the colonization of the new world.
Benjamin U. Jamison pursued his education in the public schools near his father's home and remained a resident of the Old Dominion until 1883, when he started out for himself, going to Missouri. He located at Pendleton, in Warren county, and was there employed as telegraph operator and station agent. In 1892 he removed to Colorado and in 1894 took up his abode at Elizabeth, where for twenty-four years he has largely made his home. He was station agent at Elizabeth until about 1899 and in 1904 he became connected with the banking business at Arvada, Colorado, where he remained until 1906. He then returned to Elizabeth and has since been closely identified with her business and financial interests. The population of the town is about three hundred and the prosperity of its citizens as well as the farmers in the vicinity is shown by the fact that the deposits in the State Bank of Elizabeth amounted to two hundred and forty thousand dollars on the 31st of August, 1918, and at this writing, in October, 1918, have passed the quarter million mark. Mr. Jamison is the cashier and one of the stockholders in the bank and the success of the institution is attributable in large measure to his enterprise and thorough understanding of the banking business. He is doing everything in his power to develop the institution and his labors have been most effective. He is likewise a stockholder in the Arvada Band and one of the directors of the Elbert County Bank of Elbert. He is thus extending his interests in banking and has made for himself a creditable position in financial circles of this section of the state.
History of Colorado, Vol 4, Wilbur Fiske Stone, 1919
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