In memoriam: William Harrison Lambert, May, 1842-June, 1912 : first president of the Lincoln Fellowship ... . of the Girard Company and vice-president Major Lambert 23 and manager of the Savings Trust Society of German-town. In 1892 he was appointed a member of the Board ofPublic Charities and rendered efficient service, not onlyas an official, but because of his interest in the peopleto whom the board ministered. His association with the Union League dates backmany years. He was a director from 1901 to 1904 andalso held the position of secretary. He was a memberof the Grand Army of the Republ
In memoriam: William Harrison Lambert, May, 1842-June, 1912 : first president of the Lincoln Fellowship ... . of the Girard Company and vice-president Major Lambert 23 and manager of the Savings Trust Society of German-town. In 1892 he was appointed a member of the Board ofPublic Charities and rendered efficient service, not onlyas an official, but because of his interest in the peopleto whom the board ministered. His association with the Union League dates backmany years. He was a director from 1901 to 1904 andalso held the position of secretary. He was a memberof the Grand Army of the Republic, Pennsylvania Com-mandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion andthe Pennsylvania Historical Society. He was genial in manner, courteous at all times inhis treatment of those with whom he came in contact,and won many friends by his manner and because ofthe great fund of information he possessesd. Very much interest attaches to the probable disposi-tion of the great collection in the Lambert library. Itis not known, however, whether these will be devisedto relatives or to some public MAJOR WILLIAM H. LAMBERT FROM THE PHILADELPHIA PRESS, JUNE 2, IQI2 Major William H. Lambert, soldier, philanthropist,lawyer, business man and collector, whose death wasannounced yesterday, rounded and filled a wide scopeof citizenship. He was trained as a lawyer and at theopening of the Civil War possessed the relations in lifewhich most would have felt entitled to him to beginwith a commission. Instead he preferred to enlist asa private and rose step by step, often by promotion onthe field, to the rank of major, and on the close of thewar he was in a staff position, which gave him wideadministrative experience. He returned to find it waslate to begin the practice of law and he entered thefield of life insurance when it was still new, its traditionsto be created, its methods to be developed and its workto be saved from the mere soliciting of risks to a com-prehensive plan for
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