The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-06
MORTIMER LAMPS0N.

DIR. Mortimer Lampson was born at
Rose, Wayne county, N. ~, in lS4S, and
comes Of an old American family, who
landed at Plymouth in 1880. The family
has always been prominent in American
affairs, and particularly the military, for
which they always had a great love-.
Mortimer was at school when the embers
of civil war burst into fame, and in
1862, having commenced the study Of
medicine, after one of the great battles,
he went to the front and was appointed
a medical cadet in the Infted States
Army. He served as suehs in 1852 and
1868 in the large hospitals at Washing
ton and Fortress Monroe. Desiring to
see mere of actual war, he a~pphrdyfor
and was appointed First Lieutenant and
Assistant Surgeon Of the T~hirty-slsth
United States Colored Volunteers, Colonel
Draper, and participated in the battles
of Drip Bottom, Petersburg and Rlch~
mond, and was one OF the first to enter
the fallen Capital of the Confederacy.
Returning home st the close of the war
| DR.. Lampsc finished his studies at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, New
York, and in 1896 commenced to prae-
| tice medicine in Sussex county, at a
SPOT where his ancestors had lived 100
| years before.
Coming to Jersey City, in 1873, he has
| since resided and practiced in the La
| fayette section OF the city. He has been
largely interested in the local affairs of
that section as a member and President
of the Lafayette Building and Loan AS
| sociaticn, one of the largest in the city.
He is President OF the Lafayette Citi-
zens' Protective Association and Good
| Government Club No. 8, which have ac-
complished much for thai section IN the
way of sewers, the erection of a new
schoolhouse (No. 22), and many other
advantages. He is heart and hand with
the objects of all such Organizations
pronounced advocate of good water,
! good streets. DR.. Larnpson has great
faith in, the future of Jersey City II a
proper civic spirit can be infused and not
too much ~part.zanship INDUCED in by
the people, VINO. he believes, should treat
municipal affairs as q strict matter Of
| business, and not use them as a system
Of rewards and punishments. He there
fore classes himself with such men as
Frank O.. Cole, J.. J.. Voorhees,, Joseph A..
Dear and other promoters of good gov
eminent associations. He has never held
office, and has had no desire to enter
the turmoil of an official canvass. He
is devoted to his profession of a sur
geon and takes great pride in his work
at st. Francis Hospital, where he is
visiting surgeon four months in the year,
when he attends constantly to all calls.
He has a very warm heart for the cid
veterans, and has been a member of Van
Houten Post Ne.3 now for more than TWEEN
ty years. He believes that the nation
can never honor a soldier who did his
duty and suffered for his country too
much. He has hopes that if elected he
may be useful and promote the welfare
| of his city.
DR.. Lampson's love for military affairs,
which he has inherited, led him twelve
years ago to join the Fourth Regiment,
and he has served the State of New
| Jersey as a medical officer of this com
| mand for twelve years, and is much de-
| voted to the welfare and reputation of
this regiment. He is at present Major
| and Surgeon, and thinks much of the
boys, whom he delights to take care
of when they go into camp at Sea Grit
to learn the art of war. ~