William McKendree Lambdin

The Handbook of Texas says he worked as a youth in a paper mill and a dry goods business his father started in Wheeling. In Texas he became the second president of Waco Female College, succeeding Franklin C. Wilkes. In 1859 the Methodist conference sent him to the Houston Station and the Colored Mission, which later became Trinity United Methodist Church. He then served as presiding elder of the Fort Worth District, was elected to the 1866 General Conference, and became agent for the Texas Christian Advocate. Yellow fever killed him in 1867.

What the plaque says

William McKendree Lambdin (January 16, 1811 - September 11, 1867) A native of Virginia, William McKendree Lambdin was the son of a Methodist minister. In 1834, he married Phebe G. Lamb, and after her death in 1849 he married Susan A. Thompson (1830-1910) in 1855. Two years later, the Lambdins moved to Texas and settled in Waco. Ordained in the Methodist church, Lambdin began his ministry in Texas as president of Waco Female College in 1857. He later served churches in Bosqueville, Houston and Waco, and was presiding elder of the Fort Worth district from 1860 to 1864. He died of yellow fever in 1867. Recorded - 2001

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum — steps away
  The official state repository of Texas Ranger memorabilia, opened in 1968 in Fort Fisher Park on the Brazos, named for a Ranger post of 1837 whose site no one has located.
• Dr Pepper Museum — 0.6 mi
  The 1906 bottling plant of the Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company, built where Dr Pepper outgrew a Waco drugstore soda fountain, now the Dr Pepper Museum.
• Armstrong Browning Library — 0.7 mi
  A three-story Italian Renaissance library on the Baylor campus built to hold A. J. Armstrong's Browning collection, dedicated in December 1951 and now, by its own account, the world's largest of Browning material.
• Waco Suspension Bridge — 0.7 mi
  A Brazos crossing opened in January 1870 as the longest single-span suspension bridge west of the Mississippi, tolled until 1889, closed to vehicles in 1971 and now walked.

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