Page:The Biographical Dictionary of America, vol. 06.djvu/335

 LAMBDIN

LAMBERTON

P;i., ami followed in his art the depiction of sub- jects of a sentimental and domestic genre. From 1866 to 1869 he resided in New York, and in 1868 was elected a National Academician. After another visit to Europe he returned to Philadel- phia, and devoted himself chiefly to painting flowers, especially roses — whitdi he cultivated — and to portraits. Among his works are: Old Letters (18)7); The Dead Wife (1861); Winter Quarters (186")); Golden Summer (1872); Roses (1885). HediedinPliiladelidiia, Pa., Jan. 28,1896.

LAflBDIN, James Reid, portrait painter, was born in Pittslxirg, Pa., May 10. 1807; son of James and Prudence (Harrison) Lambdin; grandson of Daniel and Margaret (Hopkins) Lambdin and of Jonathan and Frances (Spencer) Harrison, and a descendant of Daniel Lambdin, of Maryland. He received his art instruction from Thomas Sully, in Pliiladelphia, Pa., and in 1825 opened a studio in Pittsburg, Pa., and engaged in portrait painting. He was married, Sept. 11, 1828, to Mary, daughter of George and Eleanor (Connor) Cochran, of Pittsburg. He visited the large cities between Pittsburg and Mobile, Ala., and painted many portraits after 1832. He also es- tablished a museum of art and antiquities in Louisville, Ky., where he resided several years. He settled in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1837, where he painted portraits and was professor of fine arts in the University of Pennsylvania. He painted portraitsof every President of the United States from John Quincy Adams to James A. Garfield, nearh- all of which were painted at the executive mansion. He presided over the con- vention of American artists at Washington in 1858, and was appointed by President Buchanan one of the U.S. art commissioners. He was an officer of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and president of the Artists' Fund society. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 31, 1889.

LAMBERT, John, senator, was born in New Jersey, in 1748. He was a representative in the state legislature for several years; vice-president of the council, and acting governor of New Jersey, during the absence of Governor Joseph Bloom- field, 1802-03. He was a representative in the 9th and 10th congresses, 1805-09, and U.S. senator, 1809-15. He died in Aniwell, N.J., Feb. 4, 1823.

LAFIBERT, Louis Aloisius, clergyman, was born at Charleroi, Pa., April 13, 1835; son of William and Lydia (Jones) Lambert. His father, a native of Inniscorthy, county Wexford, Ireland, immigrated to America with his uncle, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Lambert, bishop of St. John's, N.F., 1811-17, and settled in Pennsylvania, where he married Lydia Jones, a Friend, who had been converted to the Roman Catholic faith. Louis A. Lambert matriculated at St. Vincent's col- lege in 1854, was graduated in theology at the

Seminary of St. Louis, Carondelet, Mo., and was a priest in several parishes, being stationeil in the Church of the Assumption, Scottsville. N.Y., in liiOl. He also served as professor of moral philoso- phy in the Paulist novitiate. New York city, and as chaplain in the U.S. army on the staff of the 18th Illinois volunteers, 1862-63. He was editor for some years of the Philadelphia C«^/ioZ/o Times, and in 1901 was editor of the New York Freeman Juurnal. He received the degree of LL.D. from Notre Dame university in 1890. He became a noted controversialist and is the author of: The- saurus Bibliefis, or Hand-Boole of Scripture Refer- ence; Notes on Imjersoll; Tactics of Infidels; Reply to Ingersoll's Christinas Sermon, and sev- eral translations from German and Italian.

LAMBERTON, Benjamin Peffer, naval officer, was born in Pennsylvania. He was appointed from that state to the U.S. Naval academy, Newport, R.I., Sept. 21, 1861. and was graduated in 1864. He was promoted ensign, Nov. 1. 1866; master, Dec. 1, 1866; lieutenant. March 12, 1868, and lieutenant-comn)ander, April 27. 1869. He was stationed at the Boston and Portsmouth navy yards in 1876, was attached to the Alaska of the Pacific station, 1877-79; was connected with the bureau of equipment, 1879-82; served on the Vandalia, 1882-84; was promoted commander, June 2, 1885; was a light-house inspector, 1885-

88; commandant of the Norfolk navy yard, 1888-

89; of the training ship Jamestown, 1889-91, and a member of the bureau of yards and docks. 1891- 98. In April, 1898, he was ordered to the Pacific station to relieve Captain Wilde of the command of the Bosto)i. but on his arrival on the eve of the

battle of Manila Bay, Wilde decided to retain the command of his vessel. Commodore Dewey maile Lamberton his chief-of-stafT. and he stood beside that officer and aided in directing the bat- tle of May 1. 1898. He was commissioned caj)- tain and ailvanced seven numbers by order of the navy department. May 11, 1898. When (I'aptain Gridley was ordered home on sick leave Captain Lamberton was given command of the Ohjmpia, and brought the flagship, with Admiral Dewey, to Boston in October. 1899, where she was put out of commi-ssion in November, 1899. He was made a member of examining boards, Jan. 5, 1900. and subsequentlj" served on the lightiiou.se board.