On The Shores of Maxinkuckee - Samilla Love Jameson  

On The Shores of Maxinkuckee Dedicated to Culver Military Academy Words and Music by Samilla Love James Published by , Logansport, Ind. Copyright April14, 1902, Rights Reserved to all Parts.

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Samilla Love Jameson Birth 24 Apr 1881 Indianapolis Marion County, Indiana Death 22 Dec 1965 McCombs, Pike County, Kentucky Burial: Friends Meeting Cemetery Barnegat, Ocean County, New Jersey This is to be an actual "Self painted Portrait" Samilla done of herself.

Illustrator for papers and magazines; illustrated book of
poems by Mrs. Flora Neff.
Known for: sculptor, illustrator, cartoonist

Samilla Love Jameson was born on April 22, 1881 in Indianapolis, Indiana to Edward Love Jameson, a mail carrier (son of Love Humphreys Jameson and Elizabeth K. Robinson) , and Elvira Mana Custer, a farm girl from Logansport, Indiana. The couple was married on December 31, 1879 Cass county Indiana and Samilla was born 16 months later.

Samilla's paternal grand parents were Rev. Love Humphreys Jameson and Elizabeth Kimpton Robinson. Rev. Jameson was the best known member of the Christian church in Indiana. and hymn writer. He wrote "Night with Ebon Pinion" and "There is a Habitation."

Rev. Love Humphreys Jameson was the son ofThomas Jameson and Sallie Humphries. Thomas Jameson and Sallie Humphries was parents also of Dr Patrick Henry Pryor Jameson who married Maria Butler who were the parents of

1. Mary Jameson married John Mantle Judah

2. Ovid Butler Jameson who married Mary Booth sister to Newton Booth Tarkington.

of the 1910 East Shore Drive, "The Fish House" and also

3. Anne Maria (Jameson) Peckham of 1954 E Shore Dr.

When she was still young, her father died and she and her mother went to live with Samuel
Custer, her maternal grandfather, on his farm in Logansport, Indiana.

Even though Logansport was an isolated farming region in north-central Illinois, Samilla was exceptionally well educated for her time. She attended the Chicago Art Institute, the Detroit Fine Arts Academy, the Carnegie Institute of Technology and she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Alois (August) Delug.

U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
Name: Samilla L Jameson
Residence Year: 1901
Street address: 456 Michigan av
Residence Place: Logansport, Indiana, USA
Publication Title: Logansport, Indiana, City Directory, 1901

U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
Name: Samilla L Jameson
Residence Year: 1903
Street address: 109 Division
Residence Place: Petoskey, Michigan, USA
Occupation: Stenographer
Publication Title: Petoskey, Michigan, City Directory, 1903

U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
Name: Samilla L Jameson
Residence Year: 1905
Street address: 131 Jackson
Residence Place: Petoskey, Michigan, USA
Occupation: Artist
Publication Title: Petoskey, Michigan, City Directory, 1905

U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
Name: Samilla L Jameson
Residence Year: 1905
Street address: 900 Race
Residence Place: Logansport, Indiana, USA
Occupation: Artist
Publication Title: Logansport, Indiana, City Directory, 1905

On October 13, 1913 she applied for a passport her description was given as:

Age: 32 years Stature: 5" 4 3/4" Eyes: Brown Nose: regular Mouth: regular Chin: round Hair: Brown Complexion:Medium Face: Oval

She was to return within 2 years and the passport was sent to 17 Gist Street Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

The followin article on her was found:

PLUCKY AMERICAN GIRL EARNS MONEY TO FLEE WAR ZONE

Safe in London, Art Student Refuses Aid After Helping Refugees on the Continent.
LONDON, Sept. 25. - Miss Samilla L. Jameson, a young girl who has been studying art In Vienna, has arrived In London from The Hague - penniless and alone but In every other respect unique among the thousands of American refugees who have arrived In London during the last two months.

For Miss Jameson not only does not demand that the American Relief Committee supply her with means to reach her home In Logansport Ind. refuses to accept assistance from any source

"I shall earn my way home or stay hero until I have done so." she said. She earned her way from Vienna to Berlin, from Berlin to The Hague and from The Hague to London

"There were enough people who really couldn't do anything In Vienna." she added, "without able-bodied and inteligence. Americans taking advantage of the whole-hearted generosity of volunteer committees, so I just told them I'd work for the committee until I had earned enough to get me out of Europe.

"After I'd earned my passage to Berlin I went there and offered my services to Major Ryan in charge of the American Committee. He was very short-handed especially In the lost baggage department, so I jumped In and helped try to locate thousands of trunks that were scattered from one end of the German empire to the other.

"After two weeks in Berlin things had cleared up sufficiently to warranr my saving and paying my fare to The Hague where i founf the American committee ever worse off for assistants.

"Assistant scretary of War Breckenridge gave me a job for three days. I worked from 10 a.m. till 10 at night. My chief job was doing scoring work.

A great many wealthy Americans in Vienna resfused to believe conitions were going to become very serious so far as they were concerened, and had settled down to stay until the was was over.

Secretary Breckenridge had urgent orders to force every American to get away. He made me a deputy to convince these scoffers that the'd better get.

Consequently I had to stay at the Hague ten days helping the committee. This fixed me so I could get to London and here I am

Miss Jameson, however is confident that something will turn up" and declares she can earn steerage passage to New York without difficulty. SHe manage to save her baggae in her circuitous travels. --- Evening Ledger Philadelphia Satruday September 26, 1914

New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957

Name: Samilla Jameson
Arrival date: 14 Oct 1914
Birth Date: 22 Apr 1881 Birth Location: India {Indiana}
Birth Location Other: indianopolis
Age: 33
Gender: Female
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Finland

Until she was about age 30, she spent her free time at her mother's farm in Logansport, selling drawings and paintings to help with the bills. After this time—around 1913— she relocated to New York, where she found work as an illustrator for magazines and also did artwork for the books of Flora Nerr, a middle-aged public school teacher and poet.

She married about 1915 Otto Josephh Heinzmann born 17 Jul 1873 Wittburg, Germany died 30 Jan 1950 Richmond, New York, New York

Year: 1910; Census Place: Manhattan Ward 12, New York, New York; Roll: T624_1025; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 0660; FHL microfilm: 1375038

He applied for a passport on Oct 15, 1913- stating he emigrated to the United States on or about July 17 1873 and was naturalized at the courthouse in Essex county New York on Nov. 21 1907. His passport was sent to Nubrugger & Day #24 State St Rm 105 New York City

World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Name: Otto Joseph Heinzmann
Race: White
Birth Date: 17 Jul 1873
Street address: 25 Terrace Ave
Residence Place: Staten Island, Richmond, New York, USA
Relative: Semilia Heinzman
Year: 1920; Census Place: Richmond Assembly District 2, Richmond, New York; Roll: T625_1239; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 1618 - *th January 1920

Name: Samilla Heinzmann [Samilla Heinzman]
Age: 38
Birth Year: abt 1882
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1920: Richmond Assembly District 2, Richmond, New York
Street: Touad Ave
Residence Date: 1920
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Otto Heinzmann
Father's Birthplace: Indiana
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
Able to Speak English: Yes
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Household Members:
Name Age
Otto Heinzmann 49
Samilla Heinzmann 38

New York, State Census, 1925 Block 4-31 Election District 33 Ward 5 Prince Bay, Assembly District No. 2, Terrance Hill

Name: Sam Ala {SamilAla} Heinzmann Birth Date: abt 1881 Birth Place: United States Age: 44 Gender: Female Residence Place: New York, Richmond Relationship: Wife Color or Race: White Assembly District: 02 House Number: 28 Line Number: 15 Page Number: 12 Household Members: Name Age Otto J Heinzmann 52 Sam Ala Heinzmann 44 Anna { Heinzmann crossed out } Zugler 80 - Mother - born Germany

Otto J. Heinzmann, who owned his own tool-making shop in Queens. True, Heinzmann was a toolmaker, but he was considerably more than that. After emigrating from Germany in 1879, Heinzmann worked as an aide to Thomas Edison in West Orange, New Jersey for eighteen years. Later, he designed tools for himself—including fine draftsman's pens— and was granted a number of patents. Until around 1921, the couple lived on Lenox Avenue Queens, while Otto traveled extensively selling his tools. In the early twenties, they moved to Greenwich Village

Jameson-Heinzmann ultimately chose sculpture as her mainstay and did many commissions for the City of New York. In 1923, she was asked to design and sculpt a bronze plaque for the Thomas Paine home at 59 Grove Street for the Greenwich Village Historical Society, of which she was a member. Later that same summer, s he was chosen for another memorial tablet for the Richmond Hill Mansion (once the headquarters of General). At the unveiling ceremony for the Thomas Paine Memorial, she met New York City's President of the Board of Elections, John R. Voorhis—an old Greenwich Villager himself. Six years later, he chose Jameson-Heinzmann to do a bust of him for Tamany Hall on the occasion of his 100th

Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Richmond, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02764; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 43-246

Name: Smaella Heinzman [Samilla Heinzmann] [Smaella Heinzmann]
Respondent: Yes
Age: 59
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Indiana
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Home in 1940: New York, Richmond, New York
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Street: Lurace Avenue
House Number: 874
Farm: No
Inferred Residence in 1935: New York, Richmond, New York
Residence in 1935: Same House
Resident on farm in 1935: No
Sheet Number: 1A
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: College, 4th year
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Otto J Heinzman 66
Smaella Heinzman 59

Ancestry
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Biography from the Archives of askART by from Kevin Murphy.