"Portrait & Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley Oregon." Chapman Publishing Company, 1903. p. 1285. EDWARD F. LAMSON The name of Lamson is not only substantially identified with the present prosperity of Oregon, but in the old pioneer days was represented in judicial, legislative and agricultural departments of activity. The farm upon which Edward F. Lamson is conducting extensive general and stock-raising enterprises, and upon which he was born September 19, 1850, was taken up by his father, Jeremiah, in 1848, and has since been a prized possession of the family. Jeremiah Lamson, the establisher of the family in Oregon, was born in Massachusetts in January, 1812, and as a young man located in Burlington, Iowa, where he erected the first store in the town, and thereafter was foremost in its many avenues of usefulness. In 1847 he perfected plans for crossing the plains, and with thirteen yoke of oxen and three wagons well filled with provisions, spent seven months in reaching the desired destination in Oregon. He had little trouble with the Indians, and suffered little from ill health, the journey being a very fortunate and favorable one. In the spring of '48 he took up a donation claim of six hundred and forty acres on the Willamina river, near the town of that name, and there farmed and raised stock almost up to the time of his death in 1888. He took a prominent part in political and other affairs in his adopted, state, and from the beginning of its establishment was identified with the Republican party. He was a member of the first senate of Oregon, and was several times a member of the legislature, serving also four years as county judge. In his young days he married Helen Hawks, who bore him four children : R. H., a resident of Portland; H. W., a rancher of Crook county; Dora, the wife of Dr. W. Everett of Tacoma, Wash.; and Edward F. The latter died on the old homestead in October, 1888. Through his youth Mr. Lamson lived on the donation claim where he was born, and at the age of nineteen took entire charge of its affairs. In 1872 he was united in marriage with Helen Bergess, of which union there have been born three sons, Roy, Guy and Rex. In addition to the four hundred and eighty acres comprising the home farm Mr. Lamson farms other lands, making in all twenty-one hundred acres, and he is engaged principally in stock-raising, to which his tract of one thousand acres of bottom land is well adapted. The stock includes sheep and Hereford cattle, and Mr. Lamson is one of the best informed men on stock matters in this county. He has filled many positions of trust in the community, and as a Republican politician was elected to the legislature in 1898, and again in 1900. President Harrison appointed him Indian agent of the Grand Ronde reservation, and he creditably maintained that position four years. The many sterling qualities of Mr. Lamson have won him many friends in Oregon, and he has ever had the sincere respect and liking of all who have been associated with him. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in July 2007 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.