Merton Horr Jameson

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Merton Horr Jameson
Merton Horr Jameson, who died at the home of his mother, Mrs. Rachel M. Jameson, Saturday evening, August 29, was of New England stock, and was born in Avon in this county, June 7, 1871. The death of his father, Mr. Robinson Jameson, caused the family to remove to Oberlin when Merton was a boy and here he has grown up. He graduated from our high school [in 1889] and entered the college, graduating with the class of 1896. During the school year, 1897-1898, he taught in Austinburg, Ohio. The following year he pursued post-graduate work in the college, receiving the Master's degree in 1900; since which time he has been teaching in New Castle, Pa., Elgin, Illinois., and for the past year at Salt Lake City, Utah, where he has been instructor in mathematics and sciences at Gordon Academy. In college days he was very active in athletics, having been for five years on the varsity base ball team. He also was in the employ at different times of the two local booksellers, where he gave general satisfaction. He was of an unusually sunny, cheerful disposition, and although modest and retiring, he had a very wide circle of friends and acquaintances, who mourn his early death.
The funeral services were largely attended at his late residence Tuesday morning at 10:30. The services were conducted by Prof. A. S. Root, and a quartette, consisting of Misses Bushnell and Funkey, and Messrs. Harroun and Jones, rendered several selections.
The Oberlin News, Oberlin, Ohio, Friday, September 4, 1903, p. 1.