Lamb, James L., 1800-1873.

Springfield, Ill. merchant who came from Fayette County Pennsylvania 1820, first settling in Kaskaskia where he was in the mercantile and pork packing business. He married Susan Cranmer, of Cincinnati, in 1824. They moved to Springfield in 1831, where he continued a mercantile and pork packing business. The Lamb family had been Quaker, but James was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield and a director of the Theological Seminary of the Northwest in Chicago.

From the description of Papers, 1816-1872. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 52244963