D. H. Lambert Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1214-1217 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				D. H. LAMBERT. 

	Nature seems to have intended that man shall enjoy a period of 
rest in the evening of life. In young manhood he is full of energy, 
determination and ambition and to these as the years pass he adds 
persistency of purpose and discriminating judgment. Possessing these 
qualities, substantial results accrue from his labors and he becomes 
the possessor of a competence that should be sufficient to enable him 
to retire in the evening of life. Such has been the record of D. H. 
Lambert, who is a well known and valued resident of Minnehaha county. A 
native of Canada, he was born on the 1st of September, 1844, and was 
reared in Wisconsin, to which state he was taken by his parents, 
Gersham and Nancy E. L. Lambert. Wisconsin was still largely a frontier 
district when the family took up their abode within its borders. They 
afterward removed to Iowa, where the father and mother lived for forty 
years, but both have now passed away. 

	D. H. Lambert, whose name introduces this record, was a public-
school pupil and after his textbooks were put aside concentrated his 
efforts upon farm work, in which he was engaged until he entered the 
army. In 1864, when in his twentieth year, he joined the Union forces 
as a private and was on active duty for four months. Upon his return 
home he worked at the cooper's trade for a time, continuing his 
residence in Iowa until 1875, when he came to South Dakota and located 
on a homestead on section 8, Lyons township, Minnehaha county. He still 
owns the original farm, although at the present time he is not actively 
engaged in its cultivation. For an extended period he carefully tilled 
the soil and engaged in the production of those crops which are best 
adapted to climatic conditions. The result of his labors was soon 
manifest in the appearance of his fields and in the financial return 
which came to him for his labor. He worked on diligently and untiringly 
year after year until he had acquired a comfortable competence and then 
put aside further business cares save the supervision of his 
investments. He is now living practically retired upon his farm, but he 
is a stockholder in the Farmers State Bank and in a grain elevator. 

	In May, 1882, Mr. Lambert was united in marriage to Miss Kate 
Northrop, a daughter of Edwin Northrop, and they have a daughter, Grace 
E., now Mrs. A. Hamre. The family are of the Protestant faith. Mr. 
Lambert is a home man, desiring to spend his leisure at his own 
fireside. For an extended period he has been a witness of the growth 
and development of the county. He lived here through the period when 
there were many hardships to be endured by the pioneer settlers and he 
has lived to see frontier conditions give way before an advancing 
civilization, while the county has become thickly populated and the 
work of improvement has been carried forward along many lines. He has 
played well his part in the development of the state, giving his time 
to many public measures and generously supporting projects which have 
been of value in bringing about the present prosperous condition of the 
county.