History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . Huntington Beach. Jerome T. Lamb isrelated to two distinguished American families, the Grant and Fillmore families. is a native of \\isconsin, born at Waukesha, December 17, 1854, a son of Jamesand Mary J. (Fillmore) Lamb, both natives of the state of New York. The father ofMrs. Lamb. Daniel Fillmore, was a cousin of President Millard Fillmore, while hermother was Thankful Ann
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . Huntington Beach. Jerome T. Lamb isrelated to two distinguished American families, the Grant and Fillmore families. is a native of \\isconsin, born at Waukesha, December 17, 1854, a son of Jamesand Mary J. (Fillmore) Lamb, both natives of the state of New York. The father ofMrs. Lamb. Daniel Fillmore, was a cousin of President Millard Fillmore, while hermother was Thankful Ann Grant, a cousin of President U. S. Grant. W^hen James Lamb was a lad of fourteen years, he ran away from home andbecame a sailor on a whaling vessel, following the adventurous life of a sailor foreleven years, afterward returning to Wisconsin where he married and engaged in farm-ing. During the year 1848. he made the trip around Cape Horn, and up to California,returning to Wisconsin in 1852. In 1857. with his family, he joined an overland train,consisting of eighty covered wagons, bound for Oregon. The emigrant train started onits long and perilous journey the year of the Mountain Meadow massacre and in. /f3
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