The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-12-21
WAS Ill LESS
THAN AN HOUR
IN SAVANNAH
Was in His Chambers in the
Federal Building When
Stricken Suddenly.
WAS A NATIVE GEORGIAN.
! WAS A NATIVE GEORGIAN.
Appointed byJ President Wilson
When Congress Passed the
Act Creating Another Divis-
ion of the United States
Court-Was Regarded as a
Very Brilliant Man.

SAVANNAH. Dec. 20-Judge w. w.
Lambdin of the United States court
for the Southern district of Georgia.
died in his office shortly after noon
today after at attack of acute in
digestion or heart failure He was
i'll only about an hour.
The Judge was talking with Mr.
Girard Cohen, young attorney, in
his office when he complained of
feeling i'll and soon became uncon-
seious. His condition became rapid
ly worse and he died without regain
ing consciousness.
Judge Lambdin was born in Upson
county, Ca, October 25, 1861, a son of
Chas. E. and Martha (Middlebrooks)
Lahmbdin, the former born in AleXan-
dria Va. March IL. 1888, and the lat
ter in Upson county, Ga. in 1910 The
father died on March s 1888, and his
remains rest in the cemetery at
Barnesyille; the mother died in 1866.
William Lambdin, grandfather of the
Judge was born and reared on the
eastern shore of Maryland, in which
state he passed his entire life. One
of the great-grandfather of Judge
Lambdin, the former born in Alexan-
in the Maryland line in the war of the
Revolution. and major of a regiment
which served in the war of 1872 The
paternal ancestors of Judge Lambdin
came to Maryland from England
about the middle of the seventeenth
century and his maternal ancestors,
also of English origin, first settled in
North Carolina, whence they came to
Georgia. His father, Charles E.
Lambdin, was reared in Baltimore,
graduated with distinction in 1857 at
the Baltimore city college of Mary
the Baltimore city college, at that
Z time the, leading college of Maryland
and came to Georgia in 1859 for the
purpose of teaching school. He was
a loyal soldier of the Confederacy in
the war between the states.
In 1861 he enlisted in the Holloway
Grays, command raised in Upson
county. and the same was mustered
into the regular service as a part of
the Twenty-seventh Georgia Infantry
which was assigned to the western
army, and MI Lambdin served in this
regiment until the final surrender
taking part in many important en-
gagements, including the battles of
Murfressboro, Chickamauga, Mission.
ary Ridge and Atlanta
William Wallace Lambdin secured
his earlier education in Gordon Insti
tute, at GAINESVILLE. a celebrated in
stitution founded by his honored
father, who was it's first president
and remained at it's head from 1872
until his death in 1888. and who was
known as one of the ablest educators
of the state, the institute of which he
was the head having had great popu
larity and done most effective work
during his regime.
After availing himself Of the ad
vantages of this excellent preparatory
school. Judge Lambdin was matricu
lated in the University of Georgia
where he was graduated in 1879, with
first honors of his class. receiving the
degree of Bachelor. of Arts.
For several years after leaving the
university he was successfully en-
gagged in teaching school, also being
identified with agricultural pursuits
in the meantime. For years he was
principal of the West End Academy
in the city Of Atlanta. In the midst
of his pedagogic work Judge Lambdir
took up the study Of law, and in 1885
was admitted to the bar. He resigned
the principalship of the academy men
toned and engaged in the practice ot
law In Atlanta, where he remained