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- Melvin Jameson graduated from the University of Rochester in 1856 and the following year he taught at the Academy in Nunda, New York. In 1859, he graduated from the Rochester Theological Seminary and in 1860, became the Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Alton, Illinois. Rev. Jameson went to Burma in 1869, as a missionary of the American Baptist Union, and was located in Brassein, where he remained for eleven years. His work in Burma was mainly evangelistic, going from village to village in a boat, preaching to the people in their homes. He was also involved in translating the Bible into Burmese and then instrumental in having it printed in Burma. His first wife, Julie Elizabeth (Allen) Jameson, died there in 1875. Three years later he remarried, Mary Emaline Walling who was also a missionary of the same society in Burma. In 1880, she returned with his children to America and a year later he rejoined her. They remained in the States until the autumn of 1883 and then returned to Burma, leaving their three sons in the home for Missionary Children in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. The last year of their furlough in America, he was the Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Ogdensburg, New York. In 1889, owing to Mr. Jameson's ill health, they returned to America and resided in Illinois and Iowa. Rev. and Mrs. Jameson, eventually, made their home in Alton, Illinois where Mr. Jameson was involved with the College Avenue Baptist Church and the Cherry Street Chapel Mission.
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1836 - 1922 (86 years)
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