Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Chamberlin, William H. H. 1840 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  William H. H. Chamberlin, a Civil war veteran, and successful farmer and stock
raiser of Spring Hill, has been a resident of Johnson county for over forty-six
years. He was born in Chautauqua county, New York, December 23, 1840, and is a
son of Hesacurah and Elizabeth Chamberlin. The Chamberlin family went from
Chautauqua county, New York, to Warren county, Ohio, in 1841. Here the father
followed farming until his death, and the mother also passed away in Warren
county, Ohio. William H. H. Chamberlin was reared to manhood on his father's
farm in Ohio and received a common school education. In the spring of 1864, he
enlisted as a private in Company B, One hundred and forty-sixth regiment, Ohio
infantry, and served in the army of the Potomac until the fall of 1864, when he
was honorably discharged and returned to Warren county, Ohio. He followed
farming there until 1869, when he decided to go west, where greater
opportunities were offered to an industrious young man. Accordingly he came to
Kansas, and located near Spring Hill in Johnson county. His capital was limited
and he bought forty acres of land for twelve hundred dollars, partly cash, and
started in farming with three or four head of cattle. While Mr. Chamberlin has
met with some slight reverses incident to agriculture as a business, he has
been, as a whole, unusually successful, and is one of the prosperous and
influential citizens of Johnson county today-He owns 240 acres of land in Spring
Hill township and 160 acres in Sheridan county, Kansas, and has various other
interests in addition to his real estate holdings. He is a stockholder in the
Farmers State Bank of Spring Hill, and a stockholder in the Kansas Life
Insurance Company, and the Mijo Telephone Company. He has been very successful
as a stock raiser and has been a very extensive cattle feeder, in which he has
perhaps met with more success than in any other single field of endeavor. Mr.
Chamberlin was married in February, 1870, to Miss Frances Wheeler, a native of
Ohio, and daughter of David Wheeler. To Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlin have been born
three children, two of them are living, as follows: Wheeler, resides at
Roosevelt, Okla., and Alta married Thomas Davis, Ralph died at fourteen years of
age. Mr. Chamberlin is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and is
independent in politics. He is public spirited and always ready and willing to
support any worthy enterprise for the improvement of his town or county.

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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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