EDMUND LAMPSON (sometimes Lamson)

From "History of Ingham and Eaton counties, d Eaton counties, Michigan" - 1880

Edmund Lamson, son of Edmund and Lucy (Howe) Lampson, was born in Poultney, Vt., Nov. 18, 1802. His father was a native of Connecticut, his mother a daughter of Deacon Silas Howe, of Revolutionary fame.

The subject of this sketch, up to his twenty-first year, worked at the trade of chair-making and painting, attending school a small portion of his time. Upon arriving of age, he determined to go to Michigan, and drove an ox team to Buffalo, then by boat journeyed to Detroit, thence on foot to Pontiac, Mich., where he resided eleven years. In 1827 he married Annie Hedges of that place; afterwards removed to Farmington, Oakland Co., and for twelve years ran a saw-mill.

In 1848 he removed to Oneida township, Eaton Co., being the first permanent settler in what is now the village of Grand Ledge. It was then dense forest. In 1861 he suffered the loss of his wife, by whom he had eleven children. In 1863 he married Mrs. Diantha Hubbard, a-native of Burlington, Otsego Co., N. Y., born in 1824.

Mr. Lamson was the first president of the village council, and from 1853 to 1861 held the office of justice of the peace; he also erected the steam saw-mill in Grand Ledge. He has been for several years notary public; has given largely to the support of the churches and schools, in which he takes great interest, and is very highly esteemed in the village, of which he is justly termed the father, and for which he has labored with all his energy and ability, no one accomplishing more in bringing about its present prosperity.