- JAMES R. LAMB, one of Janesville's wide-awake and enterprising
citizens, is a retired farmer
- whose life has been passed in Rock county. He was born in
Johnstown township on November, 9, 1864, and is the second of
three sons born to Robert and Anna (RISK) LAMB, natives of Scotland.
His elder brother, William, is a farmer in Johnstown township,
and his younger brother, Robert, lives on the family homestead.
The parents came to the United States in 1849 and settled in
Johnstown township, Rock county, Wisconsin, where the father
bought a tract of unimproved land, where he made a home and reared
his family. He was a man much esteemed in the community for
his goodness of heart and kind, neighborly qualities and beloved
by all who knew him. He was a Democrat in politics and in religious
faith was, with his wife, affiliated with the United Presbyterian
denomination. His death occurred at his home in 1890 and was
followed by that of his wife in 1893.
- James R. grew to manhood on the home farm, where he had the
common experience of the
- western farmer boy and received a good common school education
in the district schools of the neighborhood. He lived on the
family homestead until he was twenty-nine years old, but in 1893
settled on a farm of his own comprising 440 acres. He carried
on general farming with good success for five years, but in 1898
leased the place and moved with his family to the city of Janesville.
- Mr. LAMB has always taken an active interest in local public
affairs, and while living in Bradford
- township was for some years a member of the town board and
also served as township treasurer. He owns and controls much
farming land and has a beautiful and commodious home at 158 Milton
avenue, where he and his family reside. They are active members
of the Presbyterian church, he being an elder in that body.
- In 1896 Mr. LAMB married Miss Ella M., daughter of Elijah
P. and Clara (HURD) WIXOM,
- who was born in Rock county. They have one child, Stuart
James, a promising boy of ten years.
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- Taken from "Rock County, Wisconsin, Vol. II"
by William Fiske Brown, (c)1908, pp. 881-882.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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