Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Lambert, George 1827 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

GEORGE LAMBERT. Among the citizens of DuPage Township who have retired from 
arduous labors and are enjoying the fruits of former industry in a beautiful 
home, is George Lambert, whose life presents a picture of perseverance and 
uprightness. His home farm consists of one hundred and sixty acres on section 
30, and his entire landed estate comprises two hundred and sixty acres. He had 
no financial start in life other than the means to reach America, therefore 
his comfortable circumstances result from his own endeavors. The eyes of our 
subject opened to the light of of day in Lincolnshire, England, July 1, 1827. 
He is the third child of William and Elizabeth (Scoffin) Lambert, was reared 
to farming and from about ten years of age was hired out on a farm, working by 
the year in that way until he emigrated to America. In England he had 
practically no educational advantages and his intelligence is the result of 
natural talent and self endeavor. When he determined to seek a home in the 
United States he embarked on the sailer "Jacob E. Westerfield," which left 
Liverpool early in May, 1851. Crossing the Atlantic to New York, the voyage 
was continued via the Hudson River, Erie Canal and Great Lakes to Chicago, 
whence the Illinois and Michigan Canal was the water-way to Lockport. The 
first work done by Mr. Lambert was digging a cellar for George R. Dyer, of 
DuPage Township, and the winter was spent at his home. The following spring 
work was secured on the farm of Leander Hamlin, in Plainfield Township, and 
there our subject remained three or four years. He then purchased eighty acres 
of land in the same township, upon which he lived a number of years, removing 
from it to his present home farm. Here he has erected all the fine buildings 
that mark the estate, and otherwise made of it what it is to-day, a well-
regulated and valuable farm. The first vote cast by Mr. Lambert was for 
Abraham Lincoln, and from that day he has acted with the Republican party. He 
has manifested an interest in all that will advance the real prosperity of the 
section and elevate the standard of morality, and in his own life has borne 
himself in an upright and strictly honorable manner. He and his estimable wife 
belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Plainfield. He has served as 
School Director with discretion, and none are more deeply interested in the 
cause of education than he. Mr. Lambert was fortunate in his choice of a 
companion, gaining a true helpmate and wise counselor. Miss Carrie Bird became 
his wife on February 20, 1855, and has borne him ten sons and daughters. Of 
this family seven are now living, three having crossed the River of Death to 
await their parents on the farther shore. The survivors are Elizabeth, wife of 
William Walker of DuPage Township; William, now Township Clerk; Mary, wife of 
Harley Walker, of the same township; Frank E., an enterprising young man who 
carries on the farm; Enoch, Hattie and Sarah. All are intelligent and are 
winning reputations such as rejoice the fond hearts of their progenitors.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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