Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor.  Washington: West of the Cascades.  Vol. 
III.  Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917.  p.593-94.

LAMBORN, FRANK M.

	Frank M. Lamborn, who is acceptably filling the important position of 
state printer of Washington, has been engaged in the printing business since 
beginning his independent career and is thoroughly familiar with all branches 
of the industry.  He has gained an enviable position in the business world, 
but is perhaps even more widely known through his fraternal connections, 
having been for years active in the Masonic order in which he has been honored 
by election to the thirty-third degree honorary.
	Mr. Lamborn was born in Lexington, Missouri, December 8, 1864, the son 
of William W. and Ada (Weaver) Lamborn.  William W. Lamborn was born in 
Wilmington, Delaware, where he remained until he completed his education, when 
he removed to Lexington, Missouri.  He engaged in building and contracting 
there until called by death in 1897.
	Frank M. Lamborn attended the public and high schools until he was 
fourteen years old, when he entered the office of the Lexington (Mo.) 
Intelligencer.  There he mastered the printer's trade.  He won steady 
advancement and at length became superintendent of the mechanical department 
in which capacity he served until January, 1891.  Resigning the position, and 
in company with Ethan Allen, his boyhood friend, he removed to Tacoma, 
Washington, where the two formed the partnership of Allen & Lamborn, general 
printers and binders.  The firm has built up a large and representative trade 
and is recognized throughout the state as a leader in the manufacture of 
printing.
	In 1913, by appointment of Honorable Ernest Lister, governor of 
Washington, Mr. Lamborn became state printer and removed to Olympia, where he 
has since resided, although still retaining his interest in the firm of Allen 
& Lamborn, Tacoma.  When Governor Lister was reelected in 1917, Mr. Lamborn 
was reappointed state printer.  His official duties receive his closest 
personal attention and the printing of the state of Washington has never been 
better nor more economically handled than since it has been in his charge.
	Mr. Lamborn was married in Tacoma, April 4, 1900, to Miss Maude C. 
Coryel and they have two children, Frances, sixteen years of age and F. 
Morris, thirteen, both students in the Olympia high school.
	Politically Mr. Lamborn is a democrat, and has taken quite a prominent 
part in civic affairs.  In 1904 and 1905 he served in the Tacoma city council, 
being the first and only democrat ever elected from that highly representative 
city division known as the second ward.  In June, 1909, he was elected a 
member of the committee of fifteen freeholders who framed the present city 
charter of Tacoma, in which the commission form of city government is 
provided.  He was chairman of the Pierce county democratic central committee 
for four years and also served as its treasure for several years.
	In Masonic circles, where his activities extend over a long period of 
years, he is past master of Tacoma Lodge No. 22, F & A.M.; a member of the 
Royal Arch chapter, the council, and the commandery of Tacoma and a member of 
all Scottish Rite bodies of Tacoma; he is past venerable master of Tacoma 
Lodge of Perfection and, at present, is an officer in the Consistory; he 
belongs to Afifi Temple, Ancient and Accepted Order Nobles of the Mystic 
Shrine, and is a charter member of Tacobat Grotto, Mystic Order of Veiled 
Prophets.  In October, 1915, at Washington, D.C., the Supreme Council of 
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Southern 
Jurisdiction, conferred upon him the honorary thirty-third degree, a 
distinction that is given only to those who have rendered great service to the 
order.
	Mr. Lamborn is a member of the Tacoma Commercial Club and Chamber of 
Commerce, of which he served as trustee for one year and a member of the 
Tacoma Country and Golf Club and the Olympia Golf and Country Club.  He is 
likewise a life member of Tacoma Lodge No. 174, B.P.O.E., and served several 
years as its treasurer.  His church affiliations are Episcopalian.
	In business life Mr. Lamborn has been keen of insight and 
enterprising.  In civic affairs he has manifested praiseworthy public spirit 
and a thorough grasp of questions affecting the public welfare.  In his 
friendship he has ever been generous and loyal.  His life has been one of 
great activity and has been conducted in a manner that has won for him the 
unqualified respect and generous regard of his fellow men.

Submitted by: Jenny Tenlen

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