Matthew Lambing was born on April 12, 1776, in Haycock Township, Pennsylvania. He was the son and tenth child of Christopher Lambing and Mary Anne Wanner Lambing and the grandfather of historian and writer Andrew Arnold Lambing. The entry in the baptismal register reads: 1776, 21 April, at Haycock, I baptized Matthew, legitimate son of Christopher Lambing and Anne, united in lawful wedlock, born 12 April 1776.
Matthew married Mary Magdalene Kohl, of German extraction, in York County, Pennsylvania, about 1798.
Matthew was a very tall man, and though slender, was very muscular, and possessed great power of endurance. As a rule, all the Lambings spoke German until they left Adams County. One of Matthew's sons, Michael Anthony Lambing, the father of writer Andrew Arnold Lambing, could not speak English in his childhood.
Matthew learned the tailor trade, but never worked much at it. He moved with his family to Armstrong County in the fall of 1823, crossing the Kiskiminetas River (a tributary of the Allegheny River) on September 29 and settling at Long Run on the north side of that river, about 13 miles above its mouth. Here he lived until the fall of 1830, when, in that and the following year, the family moved to the site of the present Manorville, two miles below Kittanning, which was then a bottomland overgrown with laurel bushes. Here he spent the rest of his life.
Matthew Lambing, of Manor Township, died on Wednesday, April 2, 1851, at Manorville, Armstrong County, after a short illness of four days.
Information from the original memorial and The Armstrong Democrat newspaper, Kittanning, Pennsylvania, Thursday, April 10, 1851, p. 3. Additional information from "The Right Reverend Monsignor Andrew Arnold Lambing, Priest-Historian," by Sr. Miriam Fidelis Guinagh, S.C., Gathered Fragments, The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Fall 2020, pp. 76-77.
Matthew married Mary Magdalene Kohl, of German extraction, in York County, Pennsylvania, about 1798.
Matthew was a very tall man, and though slender, was very muscular, and possessed great power of endurance. As a rule, all the Lambings spoke German until they left Adams County. One of Matthew's sons, Michael Anthony Lambing, the father of writer Andrew Arnold Lambing, could not speak English in his childhood.
Matthew learned the tailor trade, but never worked much at it. He moved with his family to Armstrong County in the fall of 1823, crossing the Kiskiminetas River (a tributary of the Allegheny River) on September 29 and settling at Long Run on the north side of that river, about 13 miles above its mouth. Here he lived until the fall of 1830, when, in that and the following year, the family moved to the site of the present Manorville, two miles below Kittanning, which was then a bottomland overgrown with laurel bushes. Here he spent the rest of his life.
Matthew Lambing, of Manor Township, died on Wednesday, April 2, 1851, at Manorville, Armstrong County, after a short illness of four days.
Information from the original memorial and The Armstrong Democrat newspaper, Kittanning, Pennsylvania, Thursday, April 10, 1851, p. 3. Additional information from "The Right Reverend Monsignor Andrew Arnold Lambing, Priest-Historian," by Sr. Miriam Fidelis Guinagh, S.C., Gathered Fragments, The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Fall 2020, pp. 76-77.
Matthew Lambing was born on April 12, 1776, in Haycock Township, Pennsylvania. He was the son and tenth child of Christopher Lambing and Mary Anne Wanner Lambing and the grandfather of historian and writer Andrew Arnold Lambing. The entry in the baptismal register reads: 1776, 21 April, at Haycock, I baptized Matthew, legitimate son of Christopher Lambing and Anne, united in lawful wedlock, born 12 April 1776.
Matthew married Mary Magdalene Kohl, of German extraction, in York County, Pennsylvania, about 1798.
Matthew was a very tall man, and though slender, was very muscular, and possessed great power of endurance. As a rule, all the Lambings spoke German until they left Adams County. One of Matthew's sons, Michael Anthony Lambing, the father of writer Andrew Arnold Lambing, could not speak English in his childhood.
Matthew learned the tailor trade, but never worked much at it. He moved with his family to Armstrong County in the fall of 1823, crossing the Kiskiminetas River (a tributary of the Allegheny River) on September 29 and settling at Long Run on the north side of that river, about 13 miles above its mouth. Here he lived until the fall of 1830, when, in that and the following year, the family moved to the site of the present Manorville, two miles below Kittanning, which was then a bottomland overgrown with laurel bushes. Here he spent the rest of his life.
Matthew Lambing, of Manor Township, died on Wednesday, April 2, 1851, at Manorville, Armstrong County, after a short illness of four days.
Information from the original memorial and The Armstrong Democrat newspaper, Kittanning, Pennsylvania, Thursday, April 10, 1851, p. 3. Additional information from "The Right Reverend Monsignor Andrew Arnold Lambing, Priest-Historian," by Sr. Miriam Fidelis Guinagh, S.C., Gathered Fragments, The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Fall 2020, pp. 76-77.
Matthew married Mary Magdalene Kohl, of German extraction, in York County, Pennsylvania, about 1798.
Matthew was a very tall man, and though slender, was very muscular, and possessed great power of endurance. As a rule, all the Lambings spoke German until they left Adams County. One of Matthew's sons, Michael Anthony Lambing, the father of writer Andrew Arnold Lambing, could not speak English in his childhood.
Matthew learned the tailor trade, but never worked much at it. He moved with his family to Armstrong County in the fall of 1823, crossing the Kiskiminetas River (a tributary of the Allegheny River) on September 29 and settling at Long Run on the north side of that river, about 13 miles above its mouth. Here he lived until the fall of 1830, when, in that and the following year, the family moved to the site of the present Manorville, two miles below Kittanning, which was then a bottomland overgrown with laurel bushes. Here he spent the rest of his life.
Matthew Lambing, of Manor Township, died on Wednesday, April 2, 1851, at Manorville, Armstrong County, after a short illness of four days.
Information from the original memorial and The Armstrong Democrat newspaper, Kittanning, Pennsylvania, Thursday, April 10, 1851, p. 3. Additional information from "The Right Reverend Monsignor Andrew Arnold Lambing, Priest-Historian," by Sr. Miriam Fidelis Guinagh, S.C., Gathered Fragments, The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Fall 2020, pp. 76-77.
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