Millie Jamison

Millie Jamison (1871-1930), sometimes misdocumented as Millie Jackson, and born Mildred “Millie” Potter Jamison, was caretaker of Lionel Gilman.

In 1891 at age of 20, Jamison began her career and continued her profession into her marriage, to Benjamin Jamison, a steel worker.

After Lionel Gilman began his project on the Gilman hotel, Millie stayed with him at the hotel and maintained her caretaking duties through to Thanksgiving of 1901, whilst she was experiencing her fifth pregnancy. She returned to work on November 30th to find her employer Lionel Gilman dead.

Jamison stayed on with the Gilman family, employed by Lionel's brother Tobias Gilman, who kept her as a secretary on location while he stayed on the other coast.

By 1909, Jamison retired and received a substantial severance package that would keep her comfortable until her death in 1930 from undisclosed circumstances. By then her husband, Benjamin, had already passed, and her children grown.

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