Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis
Pub. Co. 1893.  p. 658.

J. A. LAMBERSON, M.D.

     Druggist and practitioner at Lebanon, was born on the donation claim in
Columbia county, Oregon, June 16, 1854.  His father, Samuel Lamberson, was from
Ohio, but crossed the plains to Oregon with the emigrants of 1846.  He located a
homestead in Columbia county and engaged in stock-raising and the dairy
business.  Timothy Lamberson, the grandfather of our subject, was a typical
pioneer born in Ohio, but with mature years he developed a restless disposition
and a desire for frontier life, thus he kept pushing westward as the country
settled, and in 1846 joined the emigration to Oregon.  He located on Scappoose
plains and passed the winter, and in the spring of 1847 he removed to California
and tried stock-raising, but returned to Oregon the next year.  Hardly had
he returned to this State when the gold excitement broke out and he again
returned to California and mined until 1850, when he returned to Oregon and
built a small cabin sawmill on Scappoose creek, the first mill in that locality,
and he shipped limber to California, supplying San Francisco.  In 1859 he made
another move and this time to Arizona and there he followed milling, mining and
fruit-growing until the time of his death, in 1879.
     Samuel Lamberson was married in Columbia county, in 1853, to Mary Jane
Armstrong, of Illinois, and daughter of Andrew Armstrong, an Oregon pioneer of
1850.  They continued to reside upon the homestead until 1876, when they sold
this homestead and removed to Gilliam county, eastern Oregon, where they are
still living, engaged in the stock business.  They have had sixteen children,
eleven of whom are living.
     J. A. Lamberson was the eldest child and he was educated at the academy of
Prof. George W. Curtis, at Vancouver.  He followed the study of medicine under
the instruction of Dr. W. W. Oglesby, at Fossil, eastern Oregon, and after three
years of study began practice in that town and continued there until 1882, when
he removed to Lebanon and continued his profession, building up a very extended
practice.  In June, 1891, he passed a very exhaustive examination before the
State Board of Medical Examiners and received a medical certificate beside very
gratifying words of commendation from the Board of Examination.  In 1888 he
began shipping the Oregon Casacara (Chittim bark) and the Oregon grape root to
the Eastern market, and thus developed a valuable drug from the native woods of
Oregon.  The first is valuable as a laxative and the other as a blood purifier.
In 1889 the Doctor opened a drug store for private use, but through increased
practice and patronage it has developed into a store fully stocked and opened
for public accommodation.
     He was married in Lebanon, in 1882, to Miss Mahala Mossholder, native of
Ohio, and daughter of Joseph Mossholder, who emigrated to Oregon in 1863, and
locating in Lebanon, built the first hotel in that town.  Mr. and Mrs. Lamberson
have one child, Norman Vivian, born May 22, 1885.
     The Doctor is a member of the A.O.U.W. also a member of the K.O.T.M., but
not active in political matters, his life having been devoted to his profession
and the amelioration of fleshly ills and human weaknesses.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in May 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.