Luc Lampron - b. 1860
Luc Lampron, the second son to Paul Lampron, was born about 1860, in Québec, Canada.
He came to Maine with his father and family between 1872 and 1875.
Luc, like his father, started out working at the Dana Warp Mills, located on Bridge St. in Westbrook, Maine. He would later become a professional frame maker. Maine continue to prosper through the
1800s with new industries such as, granite quarrying, lumber, shipbuilding, papermaking, and fishing. |
Bridge St. and Main St., Westbrook, Maine circa 1890
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In the mid-1850s, a baseball craze hit the New York metropolitan area. By 1856, local journals were referring to baseball as the "national pastime" or "national game". The game's commercial
potential was developing: in 1869 the first fully professional baseball club, the Cincinnati Red
Stockings, was formed and went undefeated against a schedule of semipro and amateur teams
On December 28, 1895, two French brothers, Auguste and Louis Lumiere, were credited with the world's
first public film screening. The showing of approximately ten short films lasting only twenty minutes in total was held in the basement lounge of the Grand Cafe on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris and
would be the very first public demonstration of their device they called the Cinematograph which effectively functioned as camera, projector and printer all in one.
Luc met and married Eugenie LeBrun on January 9, 1888 at St. Hyacinth, Westbrook, Maine ( her parents Charles Lebrun, Celina Gaudreau). He was 28 and she was 30
years of age. They took up residence on Brown Street in Westbrook, living in the same house as Benjamin Prince's family.
They gave birth to two boys: Louis Lampron , born about 1880 and Joseph Lampron, born about Aug 1892.
