An obviously talented young man, both in painting and music, John Jameson died tragically and young in the Andersonville prison during the Civil War. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, where his father, John Jameson, was a professional organist who later became organist at the Church of the Puritans on Union Square in New York where the family moved. The mother, Rachel, was a celebrated soprano.
When his father died suddenly in 1860, the young John Jameson took over the organist post h (showing 500 of 1248 characters). |
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