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■Cavalry at the Battle of Anlietam, under Captain Palmer. He 

 became captain on ihe staff of Gen. John F. Reynolds in 1862. 



After the war he was twice elected City Surveyor of Trenton, 

 N. J. He was engineer in charge of fuel and iron rails on the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad when coal was displacing wood as fuel for 

 engines, and steel was finally supplanting iron. He was Secretary 

 of the American Iron and Steel Association at the period of its 

 development into an institution of national importance, and when 

 the publication of iron and steel statistics became a necessity. He 

 was Secretary, Ti*easurer and Director of the first railroad to con- 

 nect the Mississippi river and Lake Superior, and founder, Treas- 

 urer and Director of the Western Land Association, which began 

 the building up of Duluth when the town consisted of but seven 

 houses. He was made President and Director of the National 

 Land Improvement Company. He participated in founding the 

 towns of Colorado Springs and Manitou, and in colonizing the 

 country at the base of Pike's Peak. 



Early in his career, while residing in Pittsburg, where he was 

 appointed the first chemical expert for the Pennsylvania Railroad, 

 Dr. Lamborn became acquainted with Mr. Andrew Carnegie and 

 others who have done so much for the development of the indus- 

 trial resources of western Pennsylvania, with whom he maintained 

 a life-long friendship. Mr. Carnegie writes of him: "As a 

 young man he was thoroughly practical, quiet, reserved, dignified, 



eminently scientific He wore kid gloves, which were then 



rare in western Pennsylvania; this fact rendered him somewhat 

 an object of suspicion at first, something rather effeminate ; one 

 had only to know him to see how he survived his kid gloves. Year 

 after year he gained more and more the respect and confidence of 

 all of us, and finally became a friend and one of the circle whose 

 loss was deeply deplored." 



Dr. Lamborn, as General Manager of various Western rail- 

 ways, introduced the first coke blast furnaces and the first Besse- 

 mer steel ingot and rail works west of the Missouri river. 



While engaged in extensive railroad and mining interests, he 

 lost no opportunity of studying the clifl!' dwellers and other primi- 

 tive inhabitants, making at the same time collections of pottery 

 and ethnological objects which he presented to various institutions. 



While in Mexico he devoted much attention to the art of that 



