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WILLARD LAMB
is a prosperous and representative farmer of Scioto
County, where he is also interested in a successful
general merchandise store. He is a scion, in both
the paternal and maternal lines of old and honored
pioneer families of this section of Ohio, where the
ancestors and both sides settled more than four score
years ago, when Southern Ohio was little more than an
untramelled wilderness. Mr. Lamb himself is
today one of the oldest native-born citizens residing in
Scioto County, and the pioneer farm which was the place
of his birth and also that of his honored father is now
in his possession, his birth having occurred in the old
homestead one mile east of his present place of abode,
and the date of his nativity having been June 28, 1844.
He is a son of Reuben and Lavina (Chaffin) Lamb,
the former of whom passed his entire life in Scioto
County, where he died in 1856, and the latter of whom
was born in this county on the 20th of February, 1821,
her marriage to Reuben Lamb having been
solemnized on the 5th of May, 1842. She survived
her husband by many years and of the seven children five
are living. Mary J., who was born Feb. 25,
1843, is the widow of Claudius Andre and resides
at Yorktown, Indiana. Willard was the next
in order of birth of the surviving children.
Phineas, who was born Nov. 28, 1845, died young.
Vilena died in childhood. Persis,
who was born Nov. 28, 1849, is the widow of James
Coil and resides in the City of Portsmouth, county
seat of Scioto County. Horace T. is a
resident of the State of Texas, and Ira M. is a
representative farmer of Scioto County.
Willard Lamb was reared under the conditions and
influences of what may be termed the middle pioneer era
in the history of Scioto County, and his early
educational advantages were those afforded in the common
schools. He continued to be associated with the
work of the home farm until he was eighteen years old,
when he laid aside the arts of peace to tender his aid
in defense of the nation's integrity. He served
during the last year of and until the close of the Civil
war, as a member of Company D, Seventy-third Ohio
Volunteer Infantry. He participated in the Battle
of Nashville and numerous minor engagements and proved
himself a valiant young soldier of the Union, his
continued interest in his former comrades in arms being
shown by his active affiliation with the Grand Army of
the Republic.
After the close of the war Mr. Lamb returned to
his native county and soon afterward he began
independent operations as a fanner on the homestead
which is his present place of residence and upon which
he has made the best of improvements within the passing
years, besides bringing the land up to a high state of
cultivation and giving to it such effective management
that on every hand are tangible evidence of thrift and
prosperity. His farm comprises 108 acres and is
eligibly situated two miles north of the village of
Franklin Furnace.
Mr. Lamb has given his co-operation in the
furtherance of those measures and enterprises that have
tended to advance the civic and material welfare of his
community and native county, and in politics he is now
allied with the progressive party, to which he
transferred his allegiance from the republican party at
the time of the national campaign of 1912. Both he
and his wife are active members of the Baptist Church.
On the 18th of June. 1868, was solemnized the marriage
of Mr. Lamb to Miss Rebecca M.
Stumbaugh, who was born in the State of Illinois, on
the 24th of November, 1849, her father having died when
she was but ten months old and her mother having passed
away and left her doubly orphaned as a child of three
years. She was reared in the home of an uncle and
received a good common-school education. Her
paternal grandfather, Adam Stumbaugh,
immigrated to the United States from Germany. Of
the twelve children of Mr. and Mrs. Lamb seven
are now living: Robert T., who is now manager for
the Postal Telegraph Cable Company at Huntington, West
Virginia, was formerly chief train dispatcher for the
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad; Clara E.,
who is the wife of John Oakes, was a successful
music teacher prior to her marriage; Hattie M.,
who was graduated in a business college, as a
bookkeeper, is the wife of Dr. Albert H. Bunshaw,
of Webberville, Ingham County, Michigan; Walter W.,
who was graduated in the Chicago Correspondence School
of Law, is a skilled telegraph operator and is employed
as train dispatcher at Bagnell, Missouri; Bessie,
who was graduated as a trained nurse, at Battle Creek,
Michigan, is the wife of Robert K. Hunnell, and
they reside in the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin;
Hanson H. is a skilled mechanic and is employed as
demonstrator for an automobile concern at Huntington,
West Virginia; Lois A., who remains at the
parental home, is a stenographer, having been graduated
in a commercial college. Lucinda, who is deceased,
became the wife of Prof. Henry J. Barrett, who is
now superintendent of the public schools of Holidaysburg,
Pennsylvania, and of their three children two are living
- Elsie M. and Catherine.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging
Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated -
Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page
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