BYRON LAMSON
Byron Lamson was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, October 22, 1833, and is a son of Oregin and Eliza (Patterson) Lamson, natives of the same State. Mrs. Lamson died in Massachusetts, in 1847. The subject of our sketch was reared in his native county, receiving an academic education. In 1853 he went to Wisconsin, stopping with his brother, who came to that State in 1843, and who was one of the early settlers of Grant county. In 1860 he was married to Harriet Danforth, in Illinois. In September, 1869, he came to Cass county, where he was employed by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad for five years, after which he was engaged at Walnut, in the lumber business; since which time he has been engaged in the lumber business at Atlantic. His father died in Grant county, Wisconsin, in 1876, going there in 1853. Mr. and Mrs. Lamson are the parents of three children living: Emma E. and Mamie F., now students at Lake Forest, Illinois, and Danforth Lamson.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 873.
