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Insurance and real estate; Lumbard & Irwin
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Lumbard came to Fort Wayne at about fourteen in 1863 with his parents, Sanford and Mary Ann (Babcock) Lumbard; his father became an influential local insurance man and special agent for the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company of Brooklyn. Sidney entered his father's office at eighteen, took over the local agencies as his father moved to the special-agent role, and in 1871 formed a partnership with John S. Irwin in the general insurance and real estate business. Griswold counts him among the strongest local insurance underwriters in northern Indiana, with real estate operations of broad scope and large Allen County realty holdings at his death. His widow, Adelia (Lynn) Lumbard — they married in June 1870 — continued the insurance business he built and ran it successfully in her own right.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch and portrait, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.