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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891;  page 293.



MARTIN V.LAMPMAN
Abbeville, LA
Martin V. Lampman, a farmer, living about a mile east of
Abbevile, was  born in Columbia county, New York, June 18, 1842.
He is the  son of  C. J. and Lydia Lampman, both natives of
New York. The father was a farmer, which occupation he
followed until the time of his death in 1867.    After his death
his wife and children removed to Pennsylvania, where she died in
1872.   The subject of this sketch is the fourth of a family of
five sons and one Daughter.  He came to Louisiana in 1873, being
the only member of his family  who came to this country.  He owns
a farm of one hundred and forty acres of land under fence, on
which he raises corn, cotton and cane.  He also keeps a 
dairy and furnishes milk to town of Abbeville.  He was maried in 
New Orleans in 1864, while in the United States army, to Miss
Hannah Leckert. They were the parents of four children, three
sons and a daughter. viz: Charles A., Martin, Edgar  and Jennie.
Mrs. Lampman  died in 1880, and Mr. Lampman was married a second
time, to Miss Pauline Stephen. To them four children, two sons
andl two daughters, have been born.  Mr. Lampman has been a
member of the school board for a number of years, and has been
commissioner of election ever since he removed to this parish. He
was president of the first Farmers' Union that was organized
in this parish and  was vice president of the union for a year.
He is also a member of the Building and Loan Association of
Abbeville. In religion he is a Methodist.