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Mark Z. Lampman

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Mark Z. Lampman

Birth
New York, USA
Death
2 Jul 1885 (aged 64–65)
Lorain County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Lorain, Lorain County, Ohio, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.4243338, Longitude: -82.1754723
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age 67 years.
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excerpt from Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio;

"..M.Z. Lampman was born in the State of New York of German parents and his father was a hatter by trade, came west many years ago, dying in Wisconsin. M.Z. Lampman, in early life, came to Lorain County, Ohio and found employment on the Lakes at one time sailing on the old stamship "Bunker Hill" long since passed away.

After leaving the lakes he married Elizabeth Churchill, who was born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1820, and he then carried on farming till 1850, in that year removing to a hotel at French Creek, which he kept till the spring of 1853, when he came to Lorain. Here he kept hotel for sometime, first in a building which stood opposite the new “Griffin House; ” he then bought the place where the “Griffin House” now stands, and in that hostelry did a flourishing business till about 1872.

Mr. Lampman was collector for the port of Lorain for about twenty-one years, '. Buchanan’s time, and he kept a store in the town for some twenty-five years, up till 1865 or ’67. About three years before his death he opened a hotel at Lake Breeze, Lorain county, and he also owned a farm there. Politically he was first a Jackson Democrat, and then a Republican from the time of Buchanan.

He died at Lake Breeze in 1875, (should be 1885) aged sixty-seven years, his widow in the fall of 1892. They were the parents of four children, all of whom grew to maturity, viz.: C. A., deceased wife of E. K. Porter; M. H., subject of sketch; Augusta M., wife of Harry Jones, and George, born in 1847, a painter by trade, who was unmarried, and died in Lorain in April, 1892.
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age 67 years.
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excerpt from Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio;

"..M.Z. Lampman was born in the State of New York of German parents and his father was a hatter by trade, came west many years ago, dying in Wisconsin. M.Z. Lampman, in early life, came to Lorain County, Ohio and found employment on the Lakes at one time sailing on the old stamship "Bunker Hill" long since passed away.

After leaving the lakes he married Elizabeth Churchill, who was born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1820, and he then carried on farming till 1850, in that year removing to a hotel at French Creek, which he kept till the spring of 1853, when he came to Lorain. Here he kept hotel for sometime, first in a building which stood opposite the new “Griffin House; ” he then bought the place where the “Griffin House” now stands, and in that hostelry did a flourishing business till about 1872.

Mr. Lampman was collector for the port of Lorain for about twenty-one years, '. Buchanan’s time, and he kept a store in the town for some twenty-five years, up till 1865 or ’67. About three years before his death he opened a hotel at Lake Breeze, Lorain county, and he also owned a farm there. Politically he was first a Jackson Democrat, and then a Republican from the time of Buchanan.

He died at Lake Breeze in 1875, (should be 1885) aged sixty-seven years, his widow in the fall of 1892. They were the parents of four children, all of whom grew to maturity, viz.: C. A., deceased wife of E. K. Porter; M. H., subject of sketch; Augusta M., wife of Harry Jones, and George, born in 1847, a painter by trade, who was unmarried, and died in Lorain in April, 1892.
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