Robert Alexander Lamberton and Annie Buehler

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Husband Robert Alexander Lamberton ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 6 Dec 1824 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1 Sep 1893 - South Bethlehem, Northampton Co, PA 4
         Buried:  - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA

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         Father: Maj. Robert Lamberton (1787-1852) 3 5
         Mother: Mary Harkness (1791-1880) 2

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       Marriage: 14 Sep 1852 4

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Wife Annie Buehler ⁶

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         Father: William Buehler (1808-1881) 7
         Mother: Henrietta R. Snyder (      -      ) 8

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Children

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1 M William E. Lamberton ⁴

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2 M James M. Lamberton ⁴

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3 F Nannie Lamberton ⁴

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         Spouse: Rollin H. Wilbur (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Alexander Lamberton

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He graduated from Dickinson College in June, 1843, being valedictorian of the class. After teaching school two years he began the study of law in the office of James McCormick of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the Dauphin county bar in August, 1848. He soon acquired a wide reputation as an able and conscientious jurist.
On the breaking out of the Civil war he enlisted in the First regiment, Pennsylvania militia, of which he was commissioned lieutenant colonel. He served on Governor Curtin's staff at the time of Lee's invasion of the Cumberland Valley and Gettysburg, in 1863.
In 1873 he was chosen a member of the Constitutional Convention as a delegate at large. He served on the committees on executive department, counties, townships, and boroughs.
Mr. Lamberton took high rank in the Masonic fraternity and was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania from 1870 to 1871. He also served in the highest offices in the Odd Fellows, of which he was a prominent member. From 1871 for a period of twenty years, he served as secretary of the Diocesan Convention of Central Pennsylvania. In 1880 the board of trustees of Lehigh University offered him the presidency of that institution, which he accepted. The same year the University of Pennsylvania conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. Dr. Lamberton's labors as president of Lehigh University for the period of thirteen years were crowned with marked success-an everlasting monument to his fidelity and ability as an educator.
Apart from his duties as president of the University, Dr. Lamberton was a director of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and trustee of estate of the late Asa Packer. He was also a trustee of the State Lunatic Hospital at Harrisburg, St. Luke's Hospital at South Bethlehem, and the Bishop Thorpe School for Young Ladies, and was a member of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution. Dr. Lamberton died suddenly in the midst of his usefulness, at South Bethlehem, on the evening of the 1st of September, 1893.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 304.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 32.

3 S. J. M. Eaton, D.D, Memorial of the Hon. Robert Lamberton (Franklin, PA: Privately published, 1885), Pg 23.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 307.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 31.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 232, 307.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 231, 307.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 232.