LAMONT, W. H. - 1914

LAMONT, DAVIDSON, REED, RICE

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Date: 7/7/2009 at 01:20:42

HISTORY OF
Cherokee County
IOWA
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
by Thomas McCulla

W. H. LAMONT.

W. H. Lamont, manager of E. A. Browns elevator at Meriden and also an auctioneer of great local prominence, was born in Ireland, near Belfast, October 7, 1861. He is a son of Hugh and Ann (Davidson) Lamont, also natives of that country. The father came to America and located in Apple River, Jo Daviess county, Illinois, in 1869, remaining there until 1888, when he came to Cherokee county, Iowa, locating in Meriden and making his home in this community until his death, which occurred in February, 1908. He had long survived his wife, who died in Illinois in 1873.

W. H. Lamont was reared in Jo Daviess county and acquired his education in the district schools. He remained with his father until he was twentyseven years of age and then turned his attention to farming, renting property in Liberty township, this county, which he operated for ten years. He then moved to Meriden and after traveling for five years in the interests of the International Harvester Company was appointed manager of the E. A. Brown elevator, a position which he has held for the past seven years. Mr. Browns headquarters are at Luverne, Minnesota, from which point he directs the conduct of the thirty five elevators which he owns. As manager of one of these Mr. Lamont occupies a responsible and important position and he fills it creditably, being a farsighted, discriminating and able business man. He is in addition an auctioneer of considerable reputation, crying farm sales during the winter months. He has valuable individual property interests, owning two fine houses in Meriden and eleven lots.

On the 2d of October, 1889, Mr. Lamont married Miss Laura E. Reed, of Liberty township, this county, a daughter of A. D. and Lucy (Rice) Reed, natives of Grant county, Wisconsin. The father served for four years in the Civil war as a member of a Wisconsin cavalry regiment and after the close of hostilities came with a team of oxen to Cherokee county, where he entered land. For a number of years thereafter he developed this property but eventually moved to California, where he now resides, having survived his wife since 1893.

Mr. Lamont gives his political allegiance to the republican party and has been very active in public affairs, serving as justice of the peace in Liberty and Sheridan townships for fourteen years and as a member of the town council, to which he still belongs. He was a candidate for the office of sheriff before the republican primaries in 1912. Fraternally he is connected with the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has held all of the offices, and he is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a man of sterling character and has always merited and received the confidence and respect of all with whom business, official or social relations have brought him into contact.