Cumberland County, Maine - Hon. William Warren Lamb
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Biography
Hon. William Warren Lamb
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 531-532


Hon. William Warren Lamb, broker and real estate dealer, a native resident of
Westbrook, Me., was born February 27, 1837, son of John and Lucy (Leighton)
Lamb. He is a member of one of the old families of this locality, his great-
grandfather, William Lamb, who lived in ante-Revolutionary times, having been a
pioneer settler of Westbrook. He lived to be a very old man; and his son,
William, Jr., a native of this town, attained an advanced age. William Lamb, the
younger, reared a large family; and John, the father of William W. Lamb, was one
of the older children.

John Lamb, born in Westbrook in the early days, when farming was the chief
industry of the place, followed that occupation as a life pursuit. Working
untiringly and living frugally, he amassed considerable property. He was an
honest man, with hearty ways and a genial disposition, and was very popular. In
politics he was a stanch Whig. He died at the age of seventy-eight. His wife, a
native of Windham, Me., died February 29, 1896, at the venerable age of eighty-
eight years. She was a member of the Congregational church, as was her husband.
Ten children, seven sons and three daughters, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lamb. Of
these the following are living: Emily J., wife of Horatio Daniels, of Westbrook;
William Warren, the subject of this sketch; Mary E., wife of Benjamin Webber, of
Westbrook; Merrit, a farmer of Westbrook, who married Miss Olive Smith, of this
town; John W., a farmer in Sioux City, Ia., who married Miss Minnie Howell; and
Anna R., wife of W. S. Sweet, of. Westbrook.

William Warren Lamb acquired his education in the. schools of his native town.
He was for some time engaged in trade in Westbrook; and twenty years ago began
to deal in real estate. Much of the best property in the east end of the city
has passed through Mr. Lamb's hands, and he has laid out for building purposes
fully two hundred lots. He owned at one time one hundred acres of land within
the limits of the city proper, and two-thirds of this he has devoted to building
purposes. An important factor in the financial progress of Westbrook, he was one
of the founders of the Westbrook Trust Company, a banking institution organized
in 1890 with a capital of fifty thousand dollars, which has since been augmented
to three hundred thousand dollars.

He has also been intimately connected with the political life of the place,
taking an active part in public affairs as a Republican. He was the first
Postmaster at Cumberland Mills and a member of the Board of Selectmen of
Westbrook in 1874 and 1875. In 1889 he was elected to the House of
Representatives, and in 1891 was reelected, serving four years in all. He was a
member of the legislature when Westbrook was awarded a city charter, being a
zealous worker for the passage of the bill; and he has been a prominent member
of the City Republican Committee for years.

In 1862 Mr. Lamb was married in Westbrook to Susan Smith, a native of Lovell,
Me., daughter of Thomas and Sarah Smith, both of whom died in Lovell. Three
children have blessed this union - Nellie, who died in childhood; Alice, wife of
Wingate C. Titcomb, a carpenter of Westbrook; and Frank W. Lamb, M.D., a
graduate of the medical department of Bowdoin College, who took a post-graduate
course of study at Bellevue Hospital, New York City, and is now practicing
medicine at Tilton, N.H.

A leader in business and political circles, Mr. Lamb is also prominent in
several social Orders. He is a Chapter Mason and Knight Templar, belonging to
Lodge No. 186, of Cumberland Mills, and to St. Albans Commandery, Knights
Templars, of Portland, and is a member of Ammoncongin Lodge, No. 76, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and also of Presumpscot Valley Lodge, No. 4, Knights of
Pythias. Mr. and Mrs. Lamb attend the Congregational church.