J. George Lampert Biography


	This biography appears on page 1405 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	J. GEORGE LAMPERT.—Having come to the Black Hills region in his 
childhood and passed the greater part of his life in this section, J. 
George Lampert, of Keystone, one of the rising and prominent young 
business men of that portion of the state, is thoroughly imbued with the 
spirit of the west and in full sympathy with the enterprise and 
aspirations of its people. He was born on March 13, 1871, at Oshkosh, 
Wisconsin, and is the son of Jacob and Lena (Kresge) Lampert, the former 
a native of Switzerland and the latter of Germany. In 1875 the family 
moved to Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and in 1881 came to South Dakota, 
arriving at Rapid City in June. Mr. Lampert was ten years old at that 
time, and had been without much opportunity for schooling in his 
previous residences, so he received his scholastic training mainly in 
the schools of that town, also taking a course of special instruction in 
the State School of Mines, located there. Thereafter he was employed in 
a merchandising establishment at Rapid City until 1892, when he moved to 
Hill City and secured work in mills for three years, coming to Keystone 
in the fall of 1895. He at once secured an engagement with the Holy 
Terror Mining Company to work in its mill and in that and the Keystone 
mill was employed as an amalgamator until February 11, 1902. At that 
time he bought stock in the Hayes-Hopkins Supply Company, and took a 
position in the store as assistant secretary and treasurer of the 
company. He is an active and zealous member of the Masonic order, the 
Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, in lodges at Keystone. On June 
25, 1902, at Keystone, he was married to Miss Edna M. Clifford, a native 
of Nebraska.