Androscoggin County ME Archives Biographies.....Lambert, William Henry 1843 - 1890
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Author: Everett S. Stackpole

   WILLIAM HENRY LAMBERT, son of Isaac and Lucy (Dingley) Lambert, was born in
Durham 8 Aug. 1843. He fitted for college at Lewiston Falls Academy and
graduated at Waterville College, now Colby University, in 1865. He was admitted
to the bar at Augusta in 1867 and to the Mass. bar in 1883, but never practiced
law. He was successively principal of the high schools at Castine, Augusta,
Lewiston and Fall River, Mass. He was Supt. of Schools in Maiden, Mass.,
1879-84. He returned to Fall River as principal of the high school and died
there 4 Nov. 1890. Colby University honored him with the degree of Ph. D. in
1889. He served for a time as Editor of the Maine School Journal, and at the
time of his death was President of the Mass. State Teachers' Association. He
edited "Memory Gems" and "Robinson Crusoe" for use in schools, and contributed
to the New England Journal of Education and other school journals. An editorial
in a Fall River paper thus speaks of him:—" Dr. Lambert was held in universal
esteem. He had impressed himself indelibly upon the city as a man of high
character and conspicuous ability. His pupils had for him the highest respect
and the warmest personal regard. It is hardly too much to say that he was facile
princeps among the public school teachers of the State. Certainly high
educational authority has so regarded him. The inducements which have been
brought to bear to secure his services in other cities clearly indicate his
professional •eminence. He was a man of unfailing courtesy, of broad and
g-enerous culture, of noble impulses, and best of all, of established Christian
character. His wide and thorough scholarship, his ready tact and deep and
genuine sympathy gave him great power as an instructor. His hold on his pupils
was remarkable. His quality as a disciplinarian was in keeping with his other
qualities. The touch of the hand was velvet, but no one doubted that it was full
of nerve and force.

   "Just and wise in administration, kindly in heart, desirous to be helpful to
all, humane and Christian in spirit, a man whose character lifted the morale of
whatever instruction he led, and inspired to higher living whatever pupils were
entrusted to his guidance and instruction, his sudden death has spread over the
community a universal feeling of grief. The flag which, as head of the school,
he so lately received at the hands of the school board, now floating at half
mast, and in keeping with it other school flags, fitly typifies the general
sense of bereavement and pain."

   He married in Waterville, Sept. 1866, Emma F. Otis and left two daughters,
Grace E. and Gertrude A.


Additional Comments:

Part of Chapter IX.
A FEW OUT OF MANY

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE
WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE.

PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN.

LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 
1899.


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