Lamb, Richard

LAMB, THOMPSON, OGG

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LAMB, Richard

Farmer, Sec. 33, owns 240 acres valued at $12,000. He was born in Randolph Co., N.C. 12 Sept. 1828, and moved with his parents to Highland Co., OH when about 1 1/2 years old. Thence to Hendricks Co., IN in 1832. Here he remained till 1852 when he moved to this county, settleing in Newton village. He remained three years and returned to Hendricks Co, and returned to this county and lived in the village till Apr 1865 when he moved to his present residence. Married Nancy E. THOMPSON in Clinton Co., IA 25 Feb 1855. She was born in Wayne Co. KY, 3 Sep 1834, and moved with parents to Hendricks Co., IN when about 1 year old, where she remained until 1854 and moved to Clinton Co IA. They have one daughter--Frances J. who was born 16 Apr 1856. She resided with her parents. Mrs. and Miss Lamb are members of the Baptist Church. ~ "Newton Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)
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Lamb, Richard

Fealty to facts in the analyzation of a citizen of the type of the late Richard Lamb, of Newton, Jasper County, is all that is required to make a biographical sketch interesting to those who have at heart the good name of the community, because it is the honorable reputation of the man of standing and affairs, more than any other consideration that gives character and stability to the body politic and makes the true glory of a city or state revered at home and respected abroad. In the broad light which things of good report ever invite the name and character of Mr. Lamb stand revealed and secure and though he is remembered as a man of modest demeanor, with no ambition to distinguish himself in public position or as a leader of men, his career was signally honorable and it may be studied with profit by the youth entering upon his life work.

Mr. Lamb was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, September 9, 1829, and he was four years old when he accompanied his mother from his native hills to Hendricks County, Indiana, where he grew to manhood and received his education. His early youth was spent on the farm with his mother, two brothers and one sister, John, Caleb and Elizabeth.

The subject was about four years old when his father, Albert Lamb, died, in fact, death took him from his family while enroute to their new home in the North, to which the mother bravely pushed on and established in the Hoosier state.

Richard Lamb came to Jasper County, Iowa, in 1852, located at Newton and remained here three years. Here he met Nancy Thompson and they were married on February 25, 1855. She was born on September 3, 1834 and she was the daughter of Jerry and Jessie Thompson, of Kentucky. His parents moved from Wayne County, Kentucky, to Clinton County, Iowa, where they located on a farm. After his marriage Richard Lamb remained in Newton but a short time, when he took his mother back to Indiana, their old home, and remained there five years on a farm in Hendricks County. Later Mr. Lamb brought his wife and mother back to Newton, Iowa, in the fall of 1860, and in 1865 they bought eighty-five acres of good land and there Mr. Lamb and wife made their home for a period of twenty-three years, during which time they enjoyed a liberal reward for their labors and developed one of the choice little farms of this part of the county. Finally, his health failing, he moved back to Newton, where he continued to reside until his death, on November 13, 1912, at the cozy and neatly furnished home, No. 425 West North street, where Mrs. Lamb continues to reside.

They were the parents of two children, a daughter and a son. Frances Jane, born April 16, 1856, is now the wife of E. C. Ogg, of Newton, and the mother of two sons living, Harry and George JR., the latter being now in school at Monmouth College, Illinois. Albert Lamb, the subject's other child, died in infancy.

Religiously, Richard Lamb held to the Baptist faith, and he was always a stanch Republican, taking a very active part in public affairs in his earlier years. Fraternally, he belonged to Lodge No. 59. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Newton, and he was also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Mr. Lamb was very successful in a material way and as he prospered through hard work and good management he added to his original eighty-five acres until he had a valuable place of two hundred acres, also a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in another part of Jasper county, which was well located and desirable land. He also owned one hundred and sixty acres of good land in Dakota, besides his home in Newton, adjoining which is one acre of land. He was one of the substantial and popular citizens of the county and, owing to his upright life, his kind and genial nature, he enjoyed the confidence, good will and friendship of all who knew him. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 747