350 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



ANDREW ARNOLD LAMBING. ■ 



Born February i, 1842; Died December 24, 1918. 



(Plate LXJ.) 



Among the names of those who were originally appointed by 

 Mr. Carnegie as members of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie 

 Institute was that of the Reverend Father Andrew Arnold Lambing, 

 and he continued to hold an honored place on the Board from the 

 time of his appointment until the day of his death. During a 

 portion of this time he served as a member of the Committee upon 

 the Museum, and during almost the whole of the time he was the 

 Honorary Curator of the Historical Collections of the Museum. 

 Andrew Arnold Lambing was born at Manorville, Armstrong 

 County, Pennsylvania, on February i, 1842. He was a descendent 

 of Christopher Lambing, who migrated from Germany, and settled 

 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1749, dying there in 18 17, at 

 the age of ninety-nine years. His son Matthew married and 

 settled in New Oxford, Adams Co., Pa., where the father of Andrew 

 Arnold Lambing, Michael A. Lambing, was born, in 1806. In 1823 

 the family came across the mountains to Armstrong County, 

 where Michael A. Lambing married Annie Shields on December i, 

 1837. There were born of this union five sons and four daughters, 

 of whom the subject of this brief sketch was the third son and child. 

 In his boyhood and early youth he labored on his father's farm, 

 and also was employed in a brickyard. He worked for a while as a 

 day-laborer helping in the grading of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 

 In the winter months he attended the country schools. He 

 acquired a taste for reading, and became profoundly interested 

 in matters relating to the local history of the region in which he 

 lived. His native ability was presently recognized by those who 

 knew him, and ways and means were found for obtaining an educa- 

 tion, qualifying him for the priesthood in the church of his fathers. 

 After his ordination he held a number of appointments, the first 

 being as a teacher in St. Francis' College, Loretto. He then 

 served as the Priest of St. Patrick's Church, Cameron Bottom, 

 Indiana Count}' ; then ministered at St. Mary's Church, Kittan 



