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Title: History of Pittsburgh and environs, from prehistoric days to the beginning of the American revolution Vol. 3 / By George Thornton Fleming.
Author: Fleming, George Thornton, 1855-1928
Pg. 794, 795
REV. ANDREW ARNOLD LAMBING, LL. D., Roman Catholic priest and author, was born at Manorville, Armstrong Co., Pa., Feb. 1, 1842. He is descended from CHRISTOPHER LAMBING, whom emigrated to America from Alsace in the vicinity of Strasburg in 1749, and settled in Bucks Co., Pa., where he died about 1817, at the age of 99 years. Some of his family passed to Adams Co., where his son MATTHEW married and settled in New Oxford, and where MICHAEL A., the (794A picture of A. A. LAMBING) father of REV. ANDREW A. LAMBING, was born Oct. 10, 1806. The family came west to Armstrong Co. in 1823. Here MICHAEL A. LAMBING married ANNE SHIELDS, Dec. 1, 1837. She was descended from THOMAS SHIELDS, who emigrated from County Donegal, Ireland, about 1760, and came to Amberson’s Valley, Franklin Co., Pa., but his grandson, WILLIAM SHIELDS, came to Armstrong Co. in 1798, and made his home near Kittanning, where his daughter ANNE was born, July 4, 1814. MICHAEL A. LAMBING was the father of five sons and four daughters, of whom ANDREW ARNOLD was the third son and child. Three of their sons fought in the Civil War, one of them losing his life and another becoming disabled; two of their sons are priests, and a daughter a Sister of Charity.
ANDREW A. LAMBING at the age of 21 entered St. Michael’s Preparatory and Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh. He was ordained to the priesthood in the seminary chapel by Bishop Domenac, of Pittsburgh, Aug. 4, 1869. He was then sent to St. Francis College, Loretto, Pa., as professor, with the additional obligation of assisting the pastor of the village church on Sundays with the exception of one Sunday in each month, when he ministered to the little congregation of Williamsburg, Blair Co., about 40 miles distant. On the following January he was appointed pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, Cameron Bottom, Indiana Co., Pa., where he remained until the end of April, when he was named pastor of St. Mary’s Church, Kittanning. While there he built a little church a few miles west of the Allegheny River for the accommodation of the families residing there, and in the middle of the January 1873, he was sent to Freeport, with the additional charge of the congregation at Natrona, six miles distant. But at the end of six months he was appointed chaplain of St. Paul’s Orphan Asylum,. Pittsburgh. He was named pastor of the Church of St. Mary of Mercy, at the point in the same city, Jan. 7, 1874. Here he placed the schools in charge of the Sisters of Mercy, bought and fitted up a non Catholic church for the congregation, and placed an altar in it dedicated to “Our Lady of the Assumption at the Beautiful River” as a memorial of the one that stood in the Chapel of Fort Duquesne during the French occupation in the middle of the previous century, and also built a residence. But the encroachments of the railroads began to drive the people out in such numbers that he was transferred to St. James’ Church, Wilkinsburg, an eastern suburb of the city, Oct. 15, 1885. His first care was to open a school, which he placed in charge of the Sisters of Charity, and in the summer of 1888 he enlarged the church, which, however, was occupied only three months when it was entirely destroyed by fire. He immediately undertook the present combination church and school building, which was dedicated just a year after the destruction of the other.
As a writer FATHER LAMBING was the author of “The Orphan’s Friend” (1875), “The Sunday School Teacher’s Manual” (1877)...For a number of years he was president of the Historical Society of Western Pa., and one of the trustees of the Carnegie Institute and the Carnegie Technical School of Pittsburgh.
As a churchman he was for many years president of the Clerical Relief Association of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, and was president of the board that prepared the diocesan school exhibit for the Columbia Exposition. For nine years he was fiscal procurator of the diocese of Pittsburgh, was long the censor of books, and also president of the diocesan school boards...In 1883 the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, conferred on him the degree of Master of Arts, and two years later that of Doctor of Laws.
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Source: Pages 413-414 Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and Present, J .H. Beers & Co., 1914
ANDREW ARNOLD LAMBING, A.M., LL. D., pastor of St. James’ Roman Catholic Church, Wilkinsburg, near Pittsburgh, Pa., was born in Manorville, Armstrong Co., Pa., Feb. 1, 1842. He is the son of MICHAEL ANTHONY and ANNE (SHIELDS) LAMBING, the family being of German extraction on the father's side, and Irish on the side of the mother.
CHRISTOPHER LAMBING emigrated from Alsace, Germany, and landed at Philadelphia, from the ship "Edinburgh," James Russell master, Sept. 15, 1749. After spending some time in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, he settled in Bucks county, four miles west of the Delaware River and sixteen miles south of Easton, Pa., the spot being called Nockamixon, an Indian word meaning "Where there are three cabins." Here CHRISTOPHER married ANNE MARY WANNER, his second wife. He died in 1817 at the advanced age of ninety-one years. He had a numerous family, one of the sons, MATTHEW, being grandfather of FATHER LAMBING.
MATTHEW LAMBING drifted down into Adams county, Pa., where he married MARY MAGDALENA KOHN, reared a family and then moved to Armstrong county, in September, 1823. He settled finally at Manorville, where he died in 1851. His son, MICHAEL ANTHONY, married ANNE SHIELDS, great-granddaughter of THOMAS and MARY (O'NEILL) SHIELDS, who emigrated to this country from the southern part of Donegal, Ireland, about the year 1745, and settled in Amberson's Valley thirty-five miles north of Chambersburg, Pa. Her father, WILLIAM C. SHIELDS, came to Armstrong county in 1798, and soon after married MARY MAGDALENE RUFFNER, of Westmoreland county (CONTINUED).
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