Garrett E. Lamb 1869-1943

LAMB, SMITH, ELLIS, GATES, MCCOY, THORNTON

Posted By: Michael J. Kearney (email)
Date: 12/31/2002 at 10:06:09

The Clinton Herald Friday April 30, 1943 p. 10 Garrett E. Lamb, 73, lifetime Clinton resident and member of on of the prominent pioneer families with which the development of the city is indelibly associated, died at 3 a.m. today in his home, 331 Fifth avenue, South. Retired from active business for more than a decade, Mr. Lamb had been ill for about three years. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 4:30 p.m. in the Bragonier chapel with the Rev. Thomas Horton, D.D., rector of St. John's Episcopal church, officiating. Interment will be in Springdale cemetery. Born Nov. 14, 1869, son of Artemus and Henrietta Smith Lamb, Garret Eugene Lamb received his elementary education in the Clinton public schools and later studied at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. During his business life, he was associated with C. Lamb and Sons, one of the huge lumber companies which made Clinton famous until decline of the sawmill industry here about the turn of the century. At one time he served as president of the Clinton Gas Light and Coke company, now the Interstate Power company, and he also was president of the Iowa and Illinois Railroad company. Throughout his active career, he was identified with business and banking interests and in the investment field. Mrs. Lamb, the former Gertrude May Ellis, died in 1934. Two sisters, Mrs. Marvin J. Gates and Mrs. Russell B. McCoy, both of Clinton, survive, together with nieces and nephews, Artemus L. Gates, Washington, D.C., assistant secretary of the navy for aviation, Mrs. Lawrence Murphy and John Gates, both of Moline, Ill., Artemus D. Lamb, Denver, Colo., and Mrs. Valeria Lamb Thornton, Laramie, Wyo. Two brothers, James Dwight and Burt Lafayette Lamb, preceded him in death.