The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-29

Der of the Dauphin County Bar Associ-
alton, the American Historical Associ-
alton, the Society of Colonial Wars in
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons
of the Revolution, the Pennsylvania
Commandery of the Military Order of
Foreign Wars, the Scotch Irish Society
of America and trustee of Bishop
thorpe School, South Bethlehem.
Master of Perseverance Lodge
AS a Mason Mr.. Lamherton became
a member of Perseverance Lodge No.
81, Harrisburg, in 1878 and during
the years 1885 and 1886 served as
Master of the Lodge. He was a mem
ber of the committee on Revision of
the Altman Recon of the Grand Lodge
Of Pennsylvania. AS a member of the
committee on correspondence of the
Grand Lodge he frequently wrote the
reports of that body. He was trustee
of the Thomas r. Patton Memorial
Charity fund and member of the Cor
respondence Circle of Quatuor Coronati
Lodge of London, lodge of Masonic
students and writer's.
Mr.. Lamberton was thirty-second
degree Mason, member of Harrisburg
ConSistory of Scottish Rite Masons and
Chancellor of that body. He was one
of the first members of the Pennsylva-
mia Society in New York and for years
attended the annual meetings of that
body in New York City each Decem-
ber, carrying the banner of the City of
Harrisburg in the grand procession pre-
ceding the addresses at the meeting.
AS an author he wrote "An Account
of St Paul IS School" and a number
of articles on Masonic topics published
in the "Keystone, the Masonic pub
cd the history of Perseverance Lodge
upon the death of the late William Ii.
Egle. Mr.. Lamberton s latest publica-
tion was digest of all the laws passed
in Pennsylvania relating to the City
of Harrisburg, most valuable work
from a legal and historical standpoint.
Mr.. Lamberton was a member of
St. Stephens Protestant Episcopal
church and was member of the vestry.
He took a prominent mart in the affairs
of the Harrisburg diocese of the Epis-
copal church. He is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Robert A. Lamberton, and
one sister, Mrs. Rollin H. Wilbur, of
Bethlehem.
History of the Family Name
Mr.. Lamberton, in explaining the
origin of the family name, several years
ago wrote the following:
''The name Lamberton, which oc-
Cured in the middle of the twelfth
century, is derived from the parish
of Lamberton, in Berwiekshire, Scot
land, which in turn is derived from
the name of Saxon, Lambert, who
settled there about the time of the
Norman conquest, giving his name to
the 'tun' or village, whence Lam
bert IS tun' and 'Lamberton.' In its
earliest form the name was de Lam
berton.' William de Lamberton, one
of the most famous of the name, who
in the last part of the thirteenth
century was made bishop of st. An
drews, Scotland, and was the tried
friend of Sir William Wallace and
Robert Bruce
On the side of his mother, who was
the daughter of the late William Bueh-
ler, of this city, Mr. Lamberton was
descended from Lieutenant Henry
Buehler, who was an officer in the
Trench and Indian wars and the War
of the Revolution, and whose father
came in 1887 from the Rhenish Pro-
vince Of Prussia and settled at War
wick, now Lititz, Pa, and from Mich
olas Snider, who came to this country,
from Germany, in 1855, and settled in
Chambersburg, Pa.