Maricopa County AZ Archives Biographies.....Lamson, E. M. 1864 - living in 1896
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Author: McFarland & Poole

p. 500-501

  PROF. E. M. LAMSON. That the life of an educator is generally barren of
incidents for popular biography is undoubtedly true, but it is still true that
the work of one in this sphere must have many points of interest to practical
thinkers, to philosophical speculators on education, and to the great work of
educational progress. A sketch, therefore, of Prof. E. M. Lamson will be in
order, for he is the successful head of the Lamson Business College, of Phoenix,
an educational institution that has steadily gained in popular esteem ever since
it was founded. Porf Lamson was born in Lake County, Illinois, August 20, 1864,
to Jonas G. and Jane (Manny) Lamson, the former a native of Vermont, and the
latter of Ontario, Canada. About the year 1855 the family settled in Lake
County, Illinois, and there Mr. Lamson has successfully tilled the soil up to
the present time. On the home farm the subject of this sketch was reared, and at
the same time he acquired a thorough and practical knowledge of farming. He
obtained a good education in the common schools. After taking a high school
course he entered Lakeside Business College, and after being graduated from this
institution in 1885 he went to Watertown, South Dakota, and established the
Watertown Commercial College, which he successfully conducted for three years.
At the end of that time he sold out and returned to Chicago, where he taught in
all the departments of the Lakeside Business College for some time. He then
became an instructor in Bryant & Stratton's Business College in the art of
penmanship and arithmetic, and during the two terms that he occupied this
position his class frequently numbered seven hundred pupils in penmanship. In
1889 he came to Phoenix, Arizona Territory, and here in a very modest way
established a business college, but his ability and thoroughness as an
instructor soon became recognized, his pupils increased in numbers, and thus was
laid the foundations of the present admirably conducted Lamson Business College
of Phoenix, which is universally acknowledged to be one of the finest
institutions of the kind in the territory. As his patronage increased, he had to
change his quarters from time to time, and in 1894 the present college building
was erected. It is a two-story brick structure, with four large classrooms,
sixteen bedrooms, a hall, stage, dining room and kitchen, all of which are
commodious and fitted up with modern conveniences. This college has an average
attendance of about fifty pupils, who receive thorough instruction in all the
ordinary branches of learning, special attention being given to the different
branches of mathematics. Professor Lamson is a man of progressive ideas, of
practical purpose, an organizer of great ability and a manager who rules
efficiently yet so gently that the appearance of enforced system is withheld
from the governed. A bright future awaits him in the field which lie has marked
out for himself, and he is already well known in the educational world. So
thorough and practical are his systems that the graduates of his institution
have all prospered. He was married in 1885 to Miss Flora Mills, of Chicago, by
whom he has two children: Flora and Vary. He and his wife are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.


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A Historical and Biographical Record of the Territory of Arizona
Published by
McFarland & Poole, Chicago, 1896


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