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LAMB, CHARLES H., son of George, born May 19, 1822, at Brownsville, Fayette county, Penn.; accompanied his parents to Illinois, and came to Springfield in 1832, preceding his father, to attend school. He remained one year, and returned to his parents, who had moved from Kaskaskia to Chester, Illinois. He afterwards learned the printing business, in the Sangamo Journal, in Springfield, with Simeon Francis & Co. In 1841, Charles H. Lamb started the Rock River Register, at Grande de Tour, Ogle county, Illinois, but sold out the following spring. He was afterwards, with his uncle, James L. Lamb, in the pork packing business, and continued in the same for twenty years; he sold out to his uncle, James L. Lamb, in 1866, and engaged in farming in Ball township, where he mostly resides. He is yet unmarried, and divides his time between this and Michigan. In politics, he is a Republican.