Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Chambers, Anthony E. 1846 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Anthony E. Chambers, farmer and raiser of standard bred horses, and veteran
of the Civil War, of Clearwater, Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born in Jefferson
county, Indiana, on November 15, 1846. His parents were Ahimaaz and Jane
(Patton) Chambers, both natives of Indiana, where they passed their lives. The
grandfather, Anthony Chambers, was a native of Kentucky, and married Nancy Blue,
a native of Virginia. The grandfather on the maternal side was Hezekiah E.
Patton, a native of North Carolina, who married a Miss Wilson. Ahimaaz Chambers
and his wife were the parents of seven children, viz.: Mrs. Nannie B. Craig, of
Clearwater, Kan.; Mrs. Mary E. Dyer, of Ohio township, Sedgwick county; Anthony
E., of Sedgwick county; A. Worth, of Sedgwick county; Mrs. Annie Hamlin, of
Newkirk, Okla.; Catharine C., deceased; Jessie F., deceased. The mother of this
family died in 1857, and the father in 1890. Anthony E. Chambers remained at
home until the summer of 1863, when he enlisted in Company H, Tenth Indiana
Cavalry, and served during the war. He was wounded at a battle of South Tunnel,
four miles from Gallatin, Tenn., and was mustered out in July, 1865. After the
war Mr. Chambers returned to his home in Indiana and remained there until 1867,
when he went to Illinois, and remained until the fall of 1873. At that time he
moved to Sedgwick county, Kansas, and preempted 160 acres of land, where he now
lives. On January 1, 1878, Mr. Chambers was married to Miss Releaf E. Phillips,
who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1855, and came with her parents to Kansas in
1874. One son has been born of this union, Joseph C., born February 4, 1881, and
married, on September 28, 1902, Miss Belva L. Cook, who was born in Greenwood
county, Kansas, on February 28, 1884. Miss Cook was a daughter of Thomas B. and
Mattie E. (Scott) Cook, both natives of Vermilion county, Illinois. Her father
was born September 11, 1857, and her mother April 4, 1861. They were married
June 7, 1877, moved to Kansas in 1880, and now live in Ninneseah township, where
Mr. Cook lives on a farm. There were five children in the Cook family, viz.:
Larkin A., deceased; Estella F., deceased; Mrs. Belva Chambers; Claude E., who
lives at home, and one who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Chambers have
one son, Lloyd W., born May 19, 1906. Mrs. Anthony E. Chambers died December 29,
1888. Anthony E. Chambers in the early days served as constable, until he
refused the office, and was trustee of the township for three terms.  
Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order, the Odd Fellows, Modern
Woodmen, and of the G. A. R. In politics he is a Republican.



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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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