Personal Life
Lampman was born in Barron, Wisconsin and raised in a small town in Neche, North Dakota where his father, H.H. Lampman was editor of the local newspaper. As a boy, he worked in his father's print shop. He left home at age 15 and worked in the wheat country of Canada. He returned to North Dakota. At the age of 19, he married Lena Sheldon (his same age), a New York City resident who had moved to the Dakotas to become a school teacher. During his time in North Dakota, he was editor of the Nelson County Arena newspaper located in Michigan, North Dakota. As of the 1930 U.S. Census, he and his wife had one son and two daughters: Hubert Lampman, Caroline S. Lampman, and Hope H. Lampman.
He is buried in Lincoln Memorial Park in Portland.
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