Generation 4 · born in Greece
John D. Lambros
Ioannis Dimitrios Lambros
Merchant in Jamestown
- Born
- 15 Mar 1875, Zoupena, Greece
- Died
- 20 Feb 1935, Jamestown, NY
Tall and strapping (six feet, brown-haired and brown-eyed, according to a ship’s manifest), John D. came to America around 1890 and settled in Jamestown, New York.
In 1904 he took over the town’s first Tsintzinian fruit and candy store, the old Greek-American Fruit Company, founded in 1888. He became the man newcomers from Zoupena were sent to: ship records name him again and again as the relative they were bound for, including his fifteen-year-old cousin Harry (opens in a new tab) in 1903.
In 1906 he went back to Greece to marry. He and Julia landed in New York on 5 September 1907 aboard the Koenig Albert, traveling with his cousin Anna (opens in a new tab) and her new husband Spiros Chios.
Widowed in 1915 with three small children, he kept his sons with him and sent two-year-old Helen (opens in a new tab) to relatives in Zoupena; she came home in 1920. He was active in the Tsintzina Society for years and was its president in 1930.
Marriage
Yanula “Julia” Limperaki (1887–1915)
- Married 1906, Greece
- Daughter of Elias and Eleni Limperakis
- Born 1887, Zoupena, Greece
- Died 26 Mar 1915, Jamestown, NY
Julia, as she was known in America, arrived at twenty: 5′4″, black-haired and brown-eyed, the ship’s manifest notes. She had three children in five years and died days after giving birth to a fourth, a girl who lived one week. Mother and baby share a grave in Lake View Cemetery, Jamestown.
Children (4)
On record
- Business
- Greek-American Fruit Company, Jamestown (from 1904)
- Address
- 9 W. 3rd St., Jamestown
- Society
- President of the Tsintzina Society, 1930
Where the records disagree
- Julia’s birth year appears as 1886, 1887 and 1888, and one cemetery record says 1 May 1897.
- One passage dates her death to 1914; her grave and death record say 26 March 1915.