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sons, of Hartford ; Friendship Lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of
Thompsonville ; Enfield Encampment,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows;
Knights of Pythias, of Thompsonville
and Eastern Star Lodge, of Warehouse
Point. He is also a member
of the Thompsonville Board of Trade,
the Thompsonville Chamber of Commerce
and the Masonic Social Club. In
his religious belief he is a United Presby-
terian, and is a member of the church of
this denomination in Thompsonville. He
has been exceedingly active in the life of
the church and is an elder thereof. He
has also been a trustee for about seven
years, an office that he holds at the pres-
ent time.
Albert Jacob Epstein was united in
marriage, January 1 1, 1888, at Thompsonville,
Connecticut, with Mary Jane Bryan,
a daughter of the late James and Elizabeth
(McMullen) Bryan, both of whom have
resided in Thompsonville for many years.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan, natives of Ireland,
of Scotch-Irish parentage, came in early
youth from Ireland and settled here. To
Mr. and Mrs. Epstein the following chil-
dren have been born : Elizabeth Guyer,
June 11, 1889, at Thompsonville; and
Samuel Raymond, October 9, 1892, also
at Thompsonville.
LAMBERTON, Walter John,
Farmer, Mechanic.
The name of Lamberton is of British
origin, and this family appears to have
been of Scotch-Irish lineage. James Lamberton
came from northern Ireland, and
settled in Palmer, Massachusetts, very
early in the eighteenth century. Obed
Lamberton appears in Windsor as early
as 1747, and was married there May 2.7
of that year to Elizabeth Taylor, who was
probably a daughter of Nathaniel and
;
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Ruth (Stiles) Taylor, and granddaughter
of Stephen Taylor. The latter had land
in Windsor, and was admitted to the
church there, March 6, 1644. About 1656
he removed to the east side of the Con-
necticut river where he purchased, in association
with another, "forty acres by
three miles" with a house, barn and other
buildings, and died there in 1668. He
married, October 25, 1649, Elizabeth
Newell, who was admitted to the church
at Windsor in August, 1666, and died December
14, 1717. Their youngest child,
Nathaniel Taylor, born November 24,
1668, married, May 31, 171 1, Ruth Stiles,
born February 5, 1691, eldest child of
John and Ruth (Bancroft) Stiles. Her
grandfather was John Stiles, born about
1633, in England, and her great-grandfather,
John Stiles, baptized December
25, 1595, in Millbroke, County Bradford,
England, removed with his wife Rachel
in 1640 to Windsor, Connecticut, where
he died June 4, 1663, leaving an estate
valued at £222, 4s. His widow, whose
name has not been preserved, died February
3, 1674. Their second son, John
Stiles, died in Windsor, December 8,
1683
; he married Dorcas Burt, daughter
of Henry and Eulalia Burt :
there is an
interesting tradition concerning the lat-
ter ; after being laid out in a coffin for
burial, she showed signs of life, recovered
and came to America, settled in Spring-
field, Massachusetts, where she reared a
large family of children.
Obed Lamberton, who lived in Wind-
sor until his death, had a second wife,
Mehitable, who died May 27, 1790, in
Windsor, aged seventy-nine years. Their
third son, Moses Lamberton, baptized
February 10, 1765, in Windsor, married
Rhoda Blanchard. Their son, William
Blanchard Lamberton, was born Febru-
ary 15, 1801, at Hayden's Station in
Windsor, where he engaged in agricul-