Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Chamberlin, Joseph H. 1834 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  Joseph H. Chamberlin, well known in Johnson county as a successful farmer and
stockman, is a native of New Jersey, born in 1834. He is a son of Hesacurah and
Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Chamberlin, natives of New Jersey. In 1841 the Chamberlin
family removed from New Jersey to New York State where they spent two years and
then went to Ohio. The father rented land in Warren and Butler counties, Ohio,
for about ten years when he bought 130 acres in Warren county where he died in
1857. His wife died in 1880. J. H. Chamberlin grew to manhood in Ohio and
attended the public schools. His first independent business venture was farming
rented land in Ohio, which he began when twenty-one years old. In 1868 he came
to Kansas, locating in Johnson county and the following year brought his family
to Johnson county and located on a farm of eighty acres in Spring Hill township,
and engaged in general farming and sheep and hog raising. The peculiar
combination of the stock business and grain farming has practically insured him
against total loss or an entire failure in any one season. In other words he did
not have his eggs all in one basket and for that reason has met with a certain
degree of prosperity even during dry seasons, wet seasons or when grasshoppers
and other pests of the plains held sway. Mr. Chamberlin was united in marriage
in 1863 to Miss Mary Moleson, a daughter of John and Lucy Moleson, and the
following children were born to this union: Hesaciah C., born in Ohio, in 1864,
now a farmer in Johnson county; George, born in Ohio, in 1865, now a mail
carrier, resides near Ocheltree, Kan.; Frank, born in 1869, in Johnson county, a
painter in Kansas City; Anna and Emily, both born in Johnson county. Mr.
Chamberlin is a Republican and is a member of the Congregational church at
Spring Hill. He is one of the substantial citizens of Johnson county and public
spirited.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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