The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-09
REP. DIR. CHARLES M. L1MSON.
Well Known Hartford Clergyman Died
Yesterday i'm st. Johnsbury, VT.

The Rev. Charles M. Lamson, D. D.,
of Hartford, president of the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, died suddenly in st. Johns
bury, VT, at about IL o'clock yesterday
forenoon of neuralgia of the heart
Rev. DR.. Lamson was in New Haven
attending the state convention of the
Association of Congregational Ministers
held here recently in the Church of the
Redeemer DR.. Lamson preached ser
mon during the convention, which was
published in full in the Journal and
Courier.
He left Hartford in the latter part of
June to attend the national council of
the American Board at Portland, Ore.
Returning from there he went to st.
Johnsbury, where he had since been
with his family. Previous to his de-
parture from Hartford his health was
apparently of the best and friends say
that he had never complained of any
heart trouble In the past.
Dr. Lamson was born in Hadley
Mass, May 49, 1S43 his father, Charles
Edward Lamson, being a farmer, and
prepared for college at Walliston acad-
1864 and for some time afterwards en-
gagged in teaching at first in Williston
academy and afterwards as a tutor in
Amherst. He was married in 1869 to
Miss Helena F. Bridgman of Amherst,
Mass, and the same year he was called
to Brockton as pastor of the Porter
CONGREGATIONAL church there. After two
wears he was called to the pastorate of
the Salem street Congregational church
in Worcester, Mass. He remained there
for fourteen years.
In 1885 Amherst college honored him
with the degree of doctor of divinity
and in the same year he received an
urgent call to the North Congregational
church in st. Johnsbury, VT This was
finally accepted after much delibera-
ton and in October of that year he be-
came settled there, to stay during a
successful and honored passionate of
nearly eight years, which was inter-
rupted only by an imperative call to
Hartford.
DR.. Lamson began his duties at the
Center church in Hartford in February,
1893. succeeding DR.. George Leon Walker, !
who retired from active duties and be- |
came pastor emeritus. Succeeding to a |
pulpit which had been occupied by as |
brilliant a scholar and theologian as |
Hartford has ever had and called to |
minister to the wants of a critical con- |
gregation. DR.. Lamson's position was
not an easy one; but he filled it |
in a way which won the love and |
respect of his church people as well as
the esteem of the community
President Lamson had been staying
in st. Johnsbury for some time on his
vacation He had been in his usual |
health and apparently was making the
most of his outing. He started Tor
bicvcle ride with his wife yesterday
forenoon and had been on the road
about an hour when he complained of
severe pains in the region of his heart.
,rbev were near the residence of W. c.
rTvIer. and DR.. Lamson was led to the
house. He expired few moments
later With DIR. and Mrs. Lamson on |
+beir visit here were their five chill
dren.
Or Lamson was member of the
oxecutive committee of the Connecticut
Rib1e society, also of the Connecticut
Home Missionary society and the Con-
ereeational Home Missionary society
He was preacher for the national
council which met in Minneapolis in
1892. He was a trustee OF Amherst