Louis Aloysius Lambert was born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania on April 13, 1835. His father was an Irish immigrant from County Wexford and his mother, Lydia Jones, was a Quaker who converted to the Catholic faith. He was educated at St. Vincent's College in Pennsylvania and the St. Louis Archdiocesan Theological Seminary in Carondelet, Missouri. After ordination on February 11, 1859, he did pastoral work in Cairo, Alton and Shawneetown, Illinois. When the Civil War broke out, he was appointed chaplain of hte 18th Regiment of Illinois Infantry Volunteers. He retired from the Army in April 1862, and became pastor of St Patrick's Church in Cairo, Illinois. He remained there until 1868, after which, he went to New York to teach philosophy and moral theology for the Paulist Fathers. In May 1869, Bishop Bernard J. McQuaid helped secure him a parish in the Diocese of Rochester, NY. From there, he was the first sent out to Seneca Falls and then to Waterloo, where he ended up spending twenty years. In 1877, he founded and edited the diocesan weekly, the "Catholic Times" (1877-1880). He also founded and edited the "Catholic Times" of Philadelphia (1892-1894), afterwards becoming editor-in-chief of the New York "Freeman's Journal". He later became known to many as the champion of orthodoxy in America. He died in Newfoundland, New Jersey, on September 25, 1910 and is buried in Scottsville.
From the description of The Louis Aloysius Lambert papers. 1863-1914. (Catholic University of America). WorldCat record id: 175249921
