Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Lambert, John J. 1837 - 
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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

CAPT. JOHN J. LAMBERT.

    John J. Lambert, proprietor of the Colorado Chieftain at Pueblo, was born in
Wexford, Ireland. January 26, 1837. When ten years of age, he moved with his
parents to America. They settled at Dubuque, Iowa, where young Lambert afterward
learned to be a printer. He worked at the trade until the beginning of the late
war. He entered the Federal army in 1861, and served through the war, first as
Lieutenant, and later as Captain of a company in the Ninth Iowa Cavalry. His
regiment was mustered out in the spring of 1866, immediately after which, Capt.
Lambert was commissioned Lieutenant in the Fifth United States Infantry. He was
for five years Post Quartermaster and Commissary at Fort Reynolds, Colo., twenty
miles below Pueblo. During that time, in the fall of 1868, he purchased the
Chieftain, a paper which had been established at Pueblo the June previous. His
brother then came West and took charge of the Chieftain, continuing with it
until 1872, when Capt. Lambert resigned his commission in the army and took
charge of the paper in person. Under his management the Chieftain has grown
rapidly, and increased largely in value. The elegant office, a two-story brick,
was erected in 1879. The Chieftain is a daily and weekly. It has an extensive
circulation, and has become one of the most important journals in Southern
Colorado. Capt. Lambert has the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens. He
was married at Dubuque, Iowa, in December, 1873, to Miss Sue E. Lorimier.


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Extracted from:

History of the  Arkansas Valley, Colorado
By J. Harrison Mills

O. L. Baskin & Co.
Chicago
1881


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