Generation 4 · born in Greece
John G. Lambros
Ioannis Georgios Lambros
Florist in Chicago
- Born
- Jan 1874, Zoupena, Greece
- Died
- 2 Oct 1940, Chicago, IL
One of the first Tsintzinians in Chicago. John arrived in 1884, at fifteen by the family’s count, went home in 1888, and came back the next year with his seven-year-old brother Basil (opens in a new tab), whom he put through school.
He became a successful florist with a shop at 10 S. Halsted Street. City directories and censuses list him as a florist from 1900 to 1930.
He married Matilda White in 1904. A son was born in October 1916 and Matilda seems to have died soon after; the 1920 census finds John a widower, living with Basil (opens in a new tab). That year he went back to Zoupena, married Anna, and sailed from Patras on the SS Edellyn, arriving on 7 September 1920. With them came his eight-year-old niece Helen (opens in a new tab), returning to her father John D. (opens in a new tab) in Jamestown.
He and Basil (opens in a new tab) often hunted in Michigan with their relative Pete Benekos. John died of a gastric hemorrhage at Lutheran Deaconess Hospital.
Marriages
Matilda White (Weitz) (1878–c. 1916)
- Married 4 Jun 1904, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Chicago
- Born 4 May 1878, Chicago, IL
- Died c. 1916, Chicago, IL
Anna (b. 1897)
- Married 1920, Greece
- Born 1897, Zoupena, Greece
- Died Chicago, IL
Anna, from Zoupena, became a U.S. citizen by marriage at the American consulate on 15 July 1920. Records disagree about her age that year: 27 on the ship’s manifest, perhaps 33.
Child
On record
- Arrived
- 1884 (the 1920 census says 1886)
- Occupation
- Florist, 10 S. Halsted St., Chicago
- Last address
- 7408 Rogers Ave., Chicago
- Buried
- Elmwood Cemetery, River Grove, Illinois, 5 Oct 1940
Where the records disagree
- His headstone gives 1869 as his birth year; his death certificate says January 1874.
- The family tree dates his second marriage to 1921, but the consulate record and the ship’s manifest place it in 1920.