Biography of Lewis Lambert (b.1847)

Biography of Lewis Lambert

WHO'S WHO in PENNSYLVANIA
Edited by Lewis R. Hemersly
L. R. Hamersly Company, New York
First Edition, 1904, page 409

LAMBERT, Lewis C.:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Somerset County; born in Stonycreek Township. Somerset County, Pa., April 29, 1847; educated in the district schools; when but a youth enlisted as a private in the Fifth Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, Company K, and served until the close of the war. After the war returned to his father's farm, and was for many years engaged in the lumbering and charcoal business; is at present engaged in buying and selling coal land; served as School Director and Committeeman in Stonycreek Township; was the first Postmaster of Lambertsville, having been appointed under President Garfield; is a member of the G. A. R.; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1902.

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