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Richard
Lamb Realty
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, 1901) 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, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, B.F. Bowden & Company,
Indianapolis, IN, 1912, p. 475. |
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