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F.M. Lamb was born in Centre, now Boston Township, Wayne County, Indiana, in 1833, a son of John and Catherine (Boone) Lamb. His grandfather, James Lamb, was a native of Perthshire, Scotland, and when twenty years of age, in 1776, came to the United States, and after participating in the war of the Revolution settled in Bourbon County, Kentucky, where he married Hannah, daughter of Joseph Boone. In 1811 he removed to Indiana and settled near the mouth of Elkhorn Creek, in Abington Township, Wayne County. He bought 1,440 acres of land for which he paid $2 an acre. He was a member of the Christian church. He had a family of nine children---Anna, James, William, John, Thomas, Joseph B., Elizabeth, Hannah, Jane and Catherine, all deceased but Mrs. Jane Spahr, of Abington. Mr. Lamb died in 1841, aged eighty-five years, and his wife in 1839, aged seventy years. He was a strong anti-slavery, and left Kentucky on account of the evil influences of slavery. His son, John Lamb, was born in Kentucky in 1802. He married Catherine, daughter of William Boone, in Butler County, Ohio, and shortly after settled in Boston Township. They were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal church. To them were born nine children; but four are living---Mrs. Sarah Owens, F.M. and T.J., of Boston, and Hannah, wife of Obadiah Holler, of Union County, Ind. James, John, Stephen, John W. and Almira are deceased. Mr. Lamb died in 1860, aged fifty-eight years, and his wife in 1880, in the seventy-third year of her age. Our subject, F.M. Lamb, was reared a farmer, and his advantages for an education were meager. He was married in 1857 to Rachel, daughter of Thomas Laws. They have had a family of ten children---Thomas, William, Joseph, Harry, John W. and Frankie (deceased), Althea, Margaret, Mary and Mattie (twins). Mr. Lamb owns a fine farm of 196 acres, all well improved.
