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REV. ANDREW ARNOLD LAMBING, son of Michael A. and Anne Lambing (nee Shields) was born at Manorville, Armstrong county, Pa., Feb. 1, 1842. His father was descended from an Alsatian family that emigrated to this country about a century and a half ago, and his mother from one that came over from County Donegal, Ireland, a few years later. His early life was spent on a farm and in public works, until he attained the years of manhood, when he entered St. Michael’s Preparatory and Theological Seminary, Glenwood, Pittsburg, where he made his course in the classics and divinity, and was ordained to the priesthood Aug. 4, 1869. After laboring on the mission in Cambria, Blair, Indiana and Armstrong counties he came to Pittsburg in the summer of 1873, and soon after took charge of the congregation of St. Mary of Mercy, at the Point, from which he was transferred to Wilkinsburg in October, 1885, where he still remains.

He is the author of “The Orphan’s Friend” (1875), “The Sunday-school Teacher’s Manual” (1877), “A History of the Catholic Church in the Dioceses of Pittsburg and Allegheny” (1880), “The Register of Fort Duquesne” (1885, besides a number of religious pamphlets. He is a regular contributor to religious and historical periodicals, and for the past year has devoted his attention almost exclusively to local and religious history. In the summer of 1884 he started “The Catholic Historical Researches,” a quarterly periodical, and the first of its kind devoted to Catholic history in the United States. It was afterward transferred to a Philadelphia publisher, by whom it is still continued. In June, 1886, the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, conferred on Mr. Lambing the degree of Doctor of Laws.