James E. Lamson

            JAMES E. LAMSON is the third of four children born to Daniel and Margaret (Pogue) Lamson, natives of Indiana, and of German and English extraction. James E. Lamson was born in Howard County, Ind., August 3, 1849, and was reared to farming. His parents moved to this county in 1852, and located on 160 acres near Rensselaer, where he now lives, with all the improvements on the land, and comforts of life.

    Mr. Lamson was married, February 19, 1873, to Susan Blankenbaker, a native of Kentucky, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth (Oates) Blankenbaker, natives of Ohio and Kentucky, and of German descent. Mrs. Lamson died July 8, 1879, leaving one child –Harley, born October 17, 1875; she was a member of the Lutheran Church. In July, 1881, Mr. Lamson married Anna L. McCoy, a native of Indiana, a prominent school teacher of Jasper County, and daughter of Benjamin and Rachel (Henderson) McCoy, natives of Maine and Pennsylvania, and of Scotch-Irish descent. To this union has been born one child –Hazel M., born March 27, 1882.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883, page 554.