. Mount Morris: past and present; an illustrated history of the township and the village of Mount Morris, Ogle County, Illinois, in their various stages of development, together with a local biographical directory . 1864. He came here from Bruceville, Md., atthat time. He learned the trade at a very early age. He was assistedhere for a number of years by his son, William Koontz. John H. Lamb-ing first came to Mount Morris in 1899, and entered the employ of A. , until April, 1900, when he started up in business forhimself. An entirely new equipment of tools and machinery necessaryin
. Mount Morris: past and present; an illustrated history of the township and the village of Mount Morris, Ogle County, Illinois, in their various stages of development, together with a local biographical directory . 1864. He came here from Bruceville, Md., atthat time. He learned the trade at a very early age. He was assistedhere for a number of years by his son, William Koontz. John H. Lamb-ing first came to Mount Morris in 1899, and entered the employ of A. , until April, 1900, when he started up in business forhimself. An entirely new equipment of tools and machinery necessaryin the business was purchased. Mr. Lambing does a general blacksmith-ing business, besides horse-shoeing and wood-working. He gained hisknowledge of the trade in his fathers shop at Abilene, Kans. Jeweler and Stationer. - H. E. Newcomer, early in the spring of1892 began business by opening a little jewelry and stationery store in aone-story frame building, which still stands just one door south of hispresent location. There, in a little room eleven feet wide and nineteenfeet long, with low ceilit)g and only two small front windows admittingthe feeble ligbt, his business grew and thrived. Favored by the confi-. MOUNT MORRIS OF TODAY. 249 dence of an appreciative public, borne along by the constant efforts ofhis own hands, and early mastering the secrets of successful advertising,he built up in a few years a most profitable and permanently-establishedtrade. But after a while the little room grew too small, and in 1899 erected on the adjoining lot, a little south of the Aldenbuilding, a handsome, one-story brick and stone building, standing todaya model of neatness, solidity and beauty. On another page is presentedan interior view of his store. In addition to his regular jewelry tradeMr. Newcomer has, by long-continued, persistent and judicious advertis-ing, built up a large mail-order business, every year receiving hundredsof orders for gold and silver watches from cust
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