Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Lamson, S Clifford 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com May 13, 2006, 6:46 pm

Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Lamson, S. Clifford – The substantiality of the business interests of Morris 
is evinced by the individuals who are conserving them.  There are here 
gathered as fine a class of business men as can be found in any community of 
similar size in the country, and one of them is S. Clifford Lamson, who is in 
the tin and sheet metal line.  Mr. Lamson was born at Neoga, Cumberland 
County, Ill., July 30, 1869, a son of Thomas D. and Caroline (Hildreth) 
Lamson, natives of Switzerland County, Ind.  Thomas D. Lamson was a carpenter 
by trade.  During the Civil War he served his country in the Third Indiana 
Cavalry, and was a brave and efficient soldier.  After the close of the war, 
he moved to Illinois where he engaged in a wagonmaking business and later on 
in life was a hardware merchant at Cowden, Ill.  He died in the spring of 
1908, his wife having passed away in 1877.

After the death of this mother the home was broken up, and S. Clifford Lamson 
lived with his paternal grandmother until he was fourteen years old.  At that 
age he returned to his father, and attended school until he was sixteen years 
old, when he began working for himself on farms, thus continuing for two 
years.  At that time he began learning the tinsmithing trade at Serena, Ill., 
there remaining until 1892.  Following that date he worked at his trade at 
different points throughout Illinois, and in January, 1903, located at Morris, 
to engage with Cronin Bros., as tinner, having charge of their tin shop.  On 
Nov. 1, 1911, he embarked in a tin and sheet metal business for himself, and 
has built up a very fine business, gives employment to two men and his 
contracts are increasing, as his work is entirely satisfactory in every 
respect.

On June 15, 1892, Mr. Lamson was married to Ida B. McInturf of Serena, Ill., a 
daughter of Adolph McInturf.  Mr. and Mrs. Lamson are the parents of two 
children:  Gail Clifford, who was born November 8, 1896; and Leila Mildred, 
who was born May 28, 1900.  Politically Mr. Lamson is a Republican, but as yet 
he has not been active in public matters as he has centered his efforts on his 
private affairs.

pages 849-850


Additional Comments:
Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/grundy/bios/lamson871nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/

File size: 2.8 Kb