Myron H Lamberson

Biography: Myron H. Lamberson was born in Tompkins county, New York. His father was a native of Trenton, New Jersey, and his mother of Canton, Massachusetts. They removed to Tioga County, Pennsylvania, when our subject was quite young, and he lived in that county until his eighteenth year, when he came to Lycoming county and found employment with a large lumber firm with which he remained fifteen years. In 1861 he located in Hepburn township, and was engaged in the hotel business about five years. In 1870 he purchased his present farm, which he has cleared and improved. He is one of the oldest lumbermen of the county; he made the first hogshead staves in this locality, and was one of the first shingle makers in Cogan valley. Mr. Lamberson was married in 1861, to Catherine, daughter of Michael Quigle, who died in 1864, leaving one child, Mary, wife of Joseph Wood. He married for his second wife Mrs. Mary J. Boorom, daughter of Wiliam Belford, of which five children have been born: Olive, Wife of J. M. Low; Joseph, deceased; John H.; Ella, deceased, and Bertha. Mr. Lamberson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Hepburn, and is a steward and class leader in that organization. He has been a democrat all his life, and takes an active interest in measures and successes of his party.