History of Charleroi, (Washington County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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Louis AIoisius Lambert, clergyman, was born at Charleroi, Pa., April 13, 1835; son of William and Lydia (Jones) Lambert. His father, a native of Inniscorthy, county Wexford, Ireland, immigrated to America with his uncle, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Lambert, bishop of St. John's, N.F., 1811-17, and settled in Pennsylvania, where he married Lydia Jones, a Friend, who had been converted to the Roman Catholic faith. Louis A. Lambert matriculated at St. Vincent's college in 1854, was graduated in theology at the Seminary of St. Louis, Carondelet, Mo., and was a priest in several parishes, being stationed in the Church of the Assumption, Scottsville, N.Y., in 1901. He also served as professor of moral philosophy in the Paulist novitiate, New York city, and as chaplain in the U.S. army on the staff of the I8th Illinois volunteers, 1862-63. He was editor for some years of the Philadelphia Catholic Times, and in 1901 was editor of the New York Freeman Journal. He received the degree of LL.D. from Notre Dame university in 1890. He became a noted controversialist and is the author of: Thesaurus Biblicus, or Hand-Book of Scripture Reference; Notes on Ingersoll; Tactics of Infidels; Reply to lngersoll's Christmas Sermon, and several translations from German and Italian.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Charleroi, (Washington County) Pennsylvania

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