Lambert, Abram 1833 – 1917
LAMBERT, SMITH, RIGGS, COOK, SURRAN, PERRY
Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 4/5/2015 at 08:06:39
ABRAM LAMBERT.
Among the most respected and valued residents of Winneshiek county is numbered Abram Lambert, who for more than fifty-seven years has resided on the farm he now occupies on section 34, Bloomfield township. This has covered the period of the state's greatest growth and progress and in the work of general improvement he has borne his full share as the years have gone by. He came to Winneshiek county in 1856 and his life since that time has been busy, active and useful, his farm being today visible evidence of his thrift and economy. He was born in Madison county, Indiana, on the 21st of March, 1833, and is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Smith) Lambert, natives of Pennsylvania and of old Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. The father died when the subject of this review was only a year and a half old and his wife survived him for many years, passing away at the age of eighty-four. To their union were born four children: Polly, the widow of Abram Riggs, of Castalia; Henry, deceased; Abram, of this review; and Samuel, who has passed away.
Abram Lambert spent his childhood in Indiana, acquiring his education in the district schools, and he there remained until he was twenty-three years of age, at which time he came to Winneshiek county, settling on a farm in Bloomfield township, on section 34. This was in 1856 and since that time he has made his home upon this property, watching the section develop from a frontier region into an important and populous farming country. The years have brought him success, prominence and a substantial fortune, for he has directed his energies along useful and practical lines and guided them always by sound business judgment. He today owns two hundred and forty acres, well improved and developed, and upon this he has carried on general farming and stock-raising for fifty-seven years, enjoying the distinction of being the only man in the county to reside upon one property for so long a period. His business interests are carefully and capably conducted and his present success rewards his own well directed and persistent industry.
On the 21st of October, 1858, Mr. Lambert was united in marriage to Miss Rhoda A. Cook, a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Surran) Cook, natives of Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Lambert became the parents of the following children: Wilber F. a resident of Bloomfield township; Oren, of Oregon; Savina and May, at home; Alton E., farming on the home-place; Elizabeth E., the wife of E. J. Perry, of Bloomfield township; and Abram Ray and Rhoda May, twins, the former of whom is deceased.
Since the organization of the republican party Mr. Lambert has been a stanch supporter of its principles and has voted the republican ticket from the time of Fremont. He is an admirer of Theodore Roosevelt and a believer in his policies which he does all in his power to uphold. For over half a century he has lived in Winneshiek county and he is one of the few who have so long witnessed its growth and development. In its progress he takes an active interest, giving his hearty support from time to time to movements for the general welfare, and personally he has always commanded and held the confidence and high regard of all who are associated with him.
Source: History of Winneshiek County, Iowa Vol. II Chicago the S. J. Clark Publishing Company 1913
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