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 364 LAMBERT. LANE. his connection with the diocesan stand- ing committee, which he still retains. In Free Masonry he has wrought for nearly sixty years, having received the first degree in his twenty-first year, and attained the thirty-third in his sixtieth. He has been repeatedly grand chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, and for THOMAS R. LAMBERT. more than fifty years the intimate and social friend of the grand officers. Dr. Lambert was married in January, 1845, t0 Mrs. Jane Standish Colby, of New Bedford, daughter of Hon. John Avery Parker and widow of Judge H. G. O. Colby. They have one son : William Thomas. LAMBERT, WILLIAM HENRY, son of Isaac and Lucy (Dingley) Lambert, was born in Durham, Androscoggin county, Maine, August 8, 1843. His early mental training was directed in public schools, the printing office of the " Lewiston Journal," and Lewiston Falls Academy, Auburn, Me. He was graduated from Colby Univer- sity in the class of 1865. After graduating, he studied law in YVaterville, and was ad- mitted to the bar at Augusta, 1867. He was then called to Castine, to take charge of the high school. He accepted, and re- mained there one year. He was principal of the Augusta high school 1868, '69 and '70 ; principal of the Lewiston high school from 1870 to '74 ; principal of the Fall River (Mass.) high school from 1874 to '79 ; superintendent of schools, Maiden, from 1879 to '84. In 18S7 he was again called to the Fall River high school, where he still remains as principal. Mr. Lambert was married in Waterville, Me., in September, 1S66, to Emma F., daughter of VV. G. and Achsah C. (Wood) Otis. Of this union are two children : Grace E. and Gertrude A. Lambert. Mr. Lambert has served as editor of the " Maine School Journal ; " secretary of the New England School Superintendents' As- sociation ; president of the Middlesex Teachers' Association and president of the Massachusetts State Teachers' Association. He was admitted to practice in Massa- chusetts courts, 1883. He edited " Mem- ory Gems" and "Robinson Crusoe," for use of schools, and has been an occasional contributor to the " New England Journal of Education," and other school journals. LANE, SAURIN ELIOT, son of Benja- min Ingersol and Susan (Eliot) Lane, was born in Townshend, Windham county, Vt., August 31, 1818. Among his ancestors are found the names of John Eliot, Sirs John Lawson and Hildreth. His father was the son of a daughter of John Lawson, and Benjamin Ingersol Lane. Of the early settlers who came to the colonies of the name of Lane, there were three brothers, two of whom settled in Virginia, and one in Massachu- setts, and hence the relations between the Lanes of the South and the North. But all the Lanes of the North do not trace, with Dr. Lane, it appears, to the same an- cestor, who was a Scotch Presbyterian, and an officer, nevertheless, in the army of King Charles. The three brothers were educated men, from whom descended the Lanes who founded the Lane Theological Seminary, at Cincinnati, Ohio. General Douglas Lane, for about forty years a senator of Virginia, was of the same stock, and also Generals " Joe " Lane, and "Jim" Lane, the "Father of Kansas," also General Lane of North Carolina. His early educational training was re- ceived in select schools. He was prepared for college under private tutors at an early age, and graduated from Union College in the class of 1841, receiving subsequently the degree of D. D. from a Western col- lege. After graduating, he entered the Union Theological Seminary, New York City,