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Lambert Days in Ohio City

Lambert Days in Ohio City

http://www.hometownstations.com/story/32464218/lambert-days-in-ohio-city Lambert Days in Ohio City Posted: Jul 17, 2016 3:45 PM EST By Sam Shriver, Multimedia Video Journalist Ohio City’s automotive past is remembered this weekend with the 49th annual Lambert Days celebration. There was a car show at their community park on the north side of the village. John Lambert had a part […]

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Anderson, Indiana names Top 50 Influential People John Lambert is No.11

Anderson, Indiana names Top 50 Influential People John Lambert is No.11

Published on Aug 26, 2015 In celebration of Anderson sesquicentennial, The Herald Bulletin and a panel of local history experts compiled a list of the 50 most influential people in Anderson’s history. The panel considered more than 200 nominees, who were evaluated on their overall contribution that made a positive impact on the city. Here […]

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Mae and Ray each get a car 1907

Mae and Ray each get a car 1907

Here are the remains of John Lambert’s gifts for the his children! 1907 John presented the red car to his son Ray and the other to his daughter Mae. The two of them grew up with the car industry. Within family reports are that both were confident drivers. Ray is quoted in an Anderson history […]

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More links, lots of information

More links, lots of information

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckeye_gasoline_buggy#History Buckeye gasoline buggy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Buckeye gasoline buggy or Lambert gasoline buggy was the first practical gasoline automobile available for sale in America,[1] according to automobile historians.[2] http://www.american-automobiles.com/Lambert.html The Lambert Automobile & The Buckeye Mfg. Co. Lambert The Buckeye Mfg. Co. Anderson, IN 1905-1917 John W. Lambert made a three […]

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Ray Lambert’s Essay on his Father’s First Car

Ray Lambert’s Essay on his Father’s First Car

In 1937 my grandfather Ray Lambert wrote about his father John William Lambert’s process as John built America’s first car. Ray grew up with the car industry. He was a three-year-old toddler when his father built the sturdy, unique self-propelled buggy in Ohio City, Ohio in 1891. Ray remembered riding in it. As a young […]

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A Brief Biography of John William Lambert

A Brief Biography of John William Lambert

John William Lambert was the third of ten children, born on January 29, 1860 to farming parents who had settled in Ohio before the Civil War after leaving Lost Mountain, Cambria County, Pennsylvania. The family farm of John’s birth was near Mechanicsburg, Ohio. There were aunts and uncles and cousins nearby. During the War, John’s […]

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Antique Automobile, Vol.24 No.5, Oct./Nov., 1960

Antique Automobile, Vol.24 No.5, Oct./Nov., 1960

This issue of Antique Automobile includes the article by L. Scott Bailey, which elucidates the claim that Ohioan John Lambert deserves the credit for building America’s first automobile, “1891 Lambert, A New Claim for America’s First Gasoline Automobile”. He settles the dispute played out until this time in history. This is the article that settles […]

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Van Wert Times interview with me for Lambert Days 2014

Van Wert Times interview with me for Lambert Days 2014

Great granddaughter wrote the book(s) on John Lambert By ED GEBERT, Times Bulletin Editor Friday, July 11, 2014 12:01 AM Carol Jean Lambert poses with her books about her great-grandfather, John W. Lambert, inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile. (Submitted photo) • • • OHIO CITY — More than 100 years ago, a man named John […]

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John’s Mother

John’s Mother

At the center of this photo is the mother of the inventor of America’s first gasoline-powered car, my great-great-grandmother, Christiana Lieber Lambert. b.1836. Her husband called her Anna. Only a few fascinating words are given to Anna’s background in family history and they are mysterious. Her father was a tailor and his father was a […]

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My Father’s Father A. Ray Lambert

My Father’s Father A. Ray Lambert

Being the son of a famous rich man is not an easy path in life, but my grandfather Ray, John Lambert’s only son, followed the family tradition of entrepreneurship.  He was a firsthand participant to the birth and early development of the American automotive industry. He was a toddler when he rode in America’s first […]

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