My Genealogy Hound

Francis M. Lamberton is a leading and influential attorney at the bar of Newport, and lends eminent strength to the fraternity, his name shining as a star of the first magnitude in the firmament of Arkansas law. His birth occurred in Cedar County, Mo., on the 6th of April, 1850, and he is a son of Christopher I. and Miranda (Edsell) Lamberton, the father a native of the ‘‘Keystone State” and the mother a native of the “Buckeye State.” They were married in Mansfield, Ohio, but about the year 1840 removed to the State of Missouri, and took up their location in Cedar County, where the father followed merchandising and dealt in livestock. In this county both parents died, having reared a family of seven children, of whom our subject is the youngest. His boyhood days were spent in his native State, and being a youth of a rather thoughtful disposition, he applied himself closely to his books during his school days and in later years while a student in the University of Nebraska he was diligent and painstaking. From this institution he was graduated in 1877, and the following year (1878) he located in the State of Arkansas, and in 1883 took up his abode in Newport being admitted to the bar the same year. He has since successfully followed the practice of law, and is now filling the office of justice of the peace, to which position he was elected in 1884. To his marriage to Miss Annie Wearham, which occurred in December, 1883, have been born a family of three children: Horace C. and Annie L. (twins), born in 1887, and Frank. Mrs. Lamberton is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The paternal grandfather, Christopher Lamberton, was a native of Ireland, and was a graduate of Dublin University. By profession he was a lawyer, and was one of the early settlers of Ohio, dying there at the age of ninety-four years. The maternal grandfather was a colonel in the War of 1812, and died of cholera in Cairo, Ill.