St. Clair-Marion County IL Archives Biographies.....Chamberlin, John M. (Jr.) 1872 - 
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Author: George Washington Smith (1912)

    JOHN M. CHAMBERLIN, JR. Identified with a line of enterprise which has most
important bearing in furthering the civic and material progress and upbuilding
of any community, Mr. Chamberlin holds prestige as one of the leading and
influential representatives of the real-estate, insurance and loan business in
East St. Louis and is one of the well known, progressive and highly esteemed
citizens Of his native county. He has served in both branches of the state
legislature and has been accorded other distinctive marks of popular confidence
and esteem. Broad-minded, liberal and public-spirited in his civic attitude, he
shows a vital interest in all that touches the welfare of his home city, county
and state, and as one of the representative citizens and business men of
Southern Illinois he is properly accorded consideration in this publication.

   Hon. John M. Chamberlin, Jr., was born at Lebanon, St. Clair county,
Illinois, on the 19th of August, 1872, and is a son of John M. and Margaret E.
(Royce) Chamberlin. After duly availing himself of the advantages of the public
schools of his native county he entered McKendree College, in which excellent
institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1890. Having learned
the art of telegraphy he devoted his attention to the same for a period of five
years, at the expiration of which he founded the Lebanon Leader, a weekly
newspaper, in his native town. He continued as editor and publisher of the
Leader for five years and made the same a model paper of its class.

   A stalwart and effective advocate of the principles and policies for which
the Republican party stands sponsor, Mr. Chamberlin has been a zealous worker in
behalf of its cause. In 1900 he was elected to represent his native county in
the lower house of the Illinois legislature, and he proved a discriminating and
valued member of that body in the forty-second general assembly. In the autumn
of 1910 he was elected to represent the forty-ninth district in the state
senate, and in the same he has made an admirable record for earnest, loyal and
progressive service, the while he has been assigned to various committees of
representative order. Senator Chamberlin is a man of genial and democratic
bearing and has a host of staunch friends in the county which has ever
represented his home. He controls a large and important business in the handling
of city and country realty, the extending of financial loans upon approved
real-estate security and as representative of leading fire and life insurance
companies. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias.

   On the 26th of November, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Senator
Chamberlin to Miss Lulu M. Farthing, of Odin, Marion county, Illinois. She is a
representative of one of the well known and honored families of Southern
Illinois and is a daughter of William D. Farthing, a prominent and influential
citizen of Marion county. Three children have been born to them, John M., Jr.,
William F. and Mildred.


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A HISTORY OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress, its People, and its Principal
Interests

BY
George Washington Smith, M. A.
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1912


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