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Benton Knott Jamison (31 March 1837 – 8 April 1912) was a Philadelphia banker and industrialist.

His company had offices at 91 (which later became 301) Chestnut St., Phila. Banker and dealer in gold as early as 1871. Stockholder in the Indiana County Deposit Bank, organized December 4 1869.

In 1880, on the board of the Norristown State Asylum, and later treasurer. In 1881, headed a coal syndicate that bought out Fairmount Coal Co., of Redbank Twp. In 1882 Dir. of Steel & Iron, listed as President of Fairmount Coal & Iron Co., building one stack at Fairmount City.

He was president of the Centre Iron Company, which he helped form, in 1885, but had become vice-president by 1890. The company shut down and was foreclosed in 1890, in part because of the failure of one of his banks. In 1888, he invested in 15,000 acres of lumber lands in Sullivan County, to be milled at Jamison City, Pennsylvania. Formed Central Penna. Railway, Land and Timber Company, Ltd., in England, with other investors, including Col. Ricketts, planned to buy out Bloomsburg & Sullivan, extend it to Bernice, work Ricketts' timber, etc. Formed Feb 1889, but Jamison could not obtain the necessary financing. English plans had collapsed by Nov. 1890; by May 1891, Jamison asking Ricketts for a loan. Jamison a Presbyterian, son of Hon. Samuel Shyrock Jamison. In 1888, was president of the Montrose Water Company. (g.books)

In 1893, was vice-pres. of Penna. Steel Refining Co.

Has entry in "Biographical Album of Prominent Pennsylvanians, 3rd Series".

Died in 1912 at his farm in Saltsburg.