Andrew Arnold Lambing, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Andrew Arnold Lambing

Roman Catholic Priest

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1842

Date of Death: 24-Dec-1918

Profession: priest, historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Andrew Arnold Lambing

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  • Lambing (1842–1918) was an American Roman Catholic priest and historian.
  • He was one of the nation's foremost priest-historians, having founded the first Catholic historical society in the United States (The Ohio Valley Catholic Historical Society, in February 1884) as well as the first Catholic historical quarterly. Born in a hamlet that became Manorville, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Ford City, he worked as a boy on his family's farm.
  • As an adolescent he labored in a brick yard and in the pioneering oil business of Samuel Kier on the Allegheny River.
  • At age 21 Lambing entered St.
  • Michael's Preparatory and Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, was ordained in 1869 by Bishop Michael Domenec, and was briefly assigned to teach history at St.
  • Francis College, Loretto.
  • Thereafter, during forty years of Pittsburgh's post-Civil War, industrial and population boom, he ministered to thousands of the city's Catholic immigrants from Europe.
  • During the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, he was credited with calming some strikers intent on destroying a freight depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the city's rail yards. Lambing was among the first academically-trained historians of Western Pennsylvania and the first to document the beginnings of the Catholic Church there.
  • Two of his most important contributions were the first English translation, from the French, of the 1749 journal of Pierre Joseph CĂ©loron de Blainville and the publication of the register of baptisms at Fort Duquesne.
  • He wrote numerous articles for newspapers and magazines on historical and religious subjects, including a majority of two early and significant regional histories: History of Allegheny County and the Standard History of Pittsburgh.
  • He served as president of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.
  • Andrew Carnegie appointed Lambing a trustee of both the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie School of Technology.
  • In 1883 the University of Notre Dame conferred on him the honorary degree of Master of Arts and in 1886 the Doctor of Laws.
  • He died Christmas Eve, 1918, and is buried in the priest’s section at St.
  • Mary Cemetery in the city's Lawrenceville neighborhood.
  • His headstone is in the shape of a large open book.

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