Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Lamb, John 1799 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    JOHN LAMB, dealer in real estate, Sec. 7; P. O. Kenosha; born August
15,1799, at Kington, Herefordshire, England, where his profession was that of
wool merchant or, as it is called in England, wool stapler; went to Canada in
1839, and resided there nine years, returning to England in 1848, where he and
his family remained for four years; came to America in 1852, and settled in
Pleasant Prairie, where he owns about 250 acres of land, and 295 acres in the
adjoining township of Somers; he also owns seven farms, besides wild lands and
city lots in Minnesota. Married Miss Elizabeth Turner, of Kingston, England,
April 8, 1825; she died in March, 1834; they had four children-Elisabeth, who
died in infancy; John, William and a second daughter, also named Elizabeth. On
June 21, 1836, he married Mrs. Ann Mary Wilcox, of Kingston, England; she had
one daughter-Mary Anna, who married Mr. Stanbridge May 15, 1861, and died in
February, 1864, leaving one child-M. E. Lamb Stanbridge, born April 9. 1863; Mr.
Lamb's eldest son, John, died in Canada in May, 1842; the second son, William,
opened a real estate office in Winona, Minn., in 1856, but he died March 9.
1872, and his father is now carrying on his business. Mr. L.'s daughter
Elizabeth died June 30, 1853, in Kenosha. Mr. and Mrs. Lamb are members of the
Second Congregational Church, of Pleasant Prairie, where there is a flourishing
congregation, which meets in the Lamb Schoolhouse, in which, during the week,
instruction is imparted to nearly forty scholars.

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THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
(1879)


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