EDWARD WILBERFORCE LAMBERT, son of William Gage and Sarah (Perley) Lambert, was born in Boston, Mass., February 15, 1831. When fifteen years of age he entered a store in Boston, but after three years of experience in business went to Northampton, Mass., where he was prepared for college in the classical school of Lewis J. Dudley (Yale 1838), and joined the class at the beginning of Sophomore year. During Senior year his father removed to New York City. After graduation he at once began the study of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (now a department of Columbia University). In 1856 he spent six months in European travel, and received his medical diploma in the spring of 1857. During the succeeding fifteen months he served as assistant and House Physician in Bellevue Hospital. On September 1,1858, he began the general practice of medicine in New York City, and acquired a high reputation as a physician. For some years he was an attending physician at St. Luke's Hospital and the Nursery and Child's Hospital, and was President of the Medical Board and one of the governors of the Society of the Lying-in Hospital of New York City. His home for over thirty years was at 2 East 37th street, but in 1902 he removed to 126 East 39th street. During most of this time he had also a summer residence at New Canaan, Conn. Upon the organization of the Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1859, he was appointed Medical Examiner, and had since continued at the head of that department of the company. For a time he was also examining physician for other insurance companies, but later he was made Medical Director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, with supervision of all examiners at home and abroad, and gave his entire time to the work. Dr. Lambert died after a week's illness from heart disease, at his home in New York City, July 17, 1904, at the age of 73 years. He was a member of the Broadway Tabernacle. He married at Dorchester, Mass., September 9, 1858, Martha Melcher, daughter of Samuel W. Waldron, and had four sons and six daughters, of whom the sons and four of the daughters are living. The sons graduated from Yale College, respectively, in 1880, 1884, 1886 and 1893, and three of them are practicing physicians in New York City. One daughter married Dickinson W. Richards (Yale 1880). Another married William Ransom Barbour (Yale 1880), and a third married Knight Dexter Cheney (Yale 1892). (Yale University, Obituary Records of Graduates, First Series No. 5, July 1905)
EDWARD WILBERFORCE LAMBERT, son of William Gage and Sarah (Perley) Lambert, was born in Boston, Mass., February 15, 1831. When fifteen years of age he entered a store in Boston, but after three years of experience in business went to Northampton, Mass., where he was prepared for college in the classical school of Lewis J. Dudley (Yale 1838), and joined the class at the beginning of Sophomore year. During Senior year his father removed to New York City. After graduation he at once began the study of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (now a department of Columbia University). In 1856 he spent six months in European travel, and received his medical diploma in the spring of 1857. During the succeeding fifteen months he served as assistant and House Physician in Bellevue Hospital. On September 1,1858, he began the general practice of medicine in New York City, and acquired a high reputation as a physician. For some years he was an attending physician at St. Luke's Hospital and the Nursery and Child's Hospital, and was President of the Medical Board and one of the governors of the Society of the Lying-in Hospital of New York City. His home for over thirty years was at 2 East 37th street, but in 1902 he removed to 126 East 39th street. During most of this time he had also a summer residence at New Canaan, Conn. Upon the organization of the Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1859, he was appointed Medical Examiner, and had since continued at the head of that department of the company. For a time he was also examining physician for other insurance companies, but later he was made Medical Director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, with supervision of all examiners at home and abroad, and gave his entire time to the work. Dr. Lambert died after a week's illness from heart disease, at his home in New York City, July 17, 1904, at the age of 73 years. He was a member of the Broadway Tabernacle. He married at Dorchester, Mass., September 9, 1858, Martha Melcher, daughter of Samuel W. Waldron, and had four sons and six daughters, of whom the sons and four of the daughters are living. The sons graduated from Yale College, respectively, in 1880, 1884, 1886 and 1893, and three of them are practicing physicians in New York City. One daughter married Dickinson W. Richards (Yale 1880). Another married William Ransom Barbour (Yale 1880), and a third married Knight Dexter Cheney (Yale 1892). (Yale University, Obituary Records of Graduates, First Series No. 5, July 1905)
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