BIO:  CHAMBERS, Smiley Newton, s/o Alexander & Rachael (Keith) Chambers

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

CHAMBERS   KEITH   McCORD   CABORN

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1886.

Knox County, Vincennes Twp, page 325

SMILEY NEWTON CHAMBERS was born in the village of Edwardsport, Knox Co., Ind.
March 18, 1845.  His father's family were among the pioneers of the county;
his great-grandfather, Alexander Chambers, having moved into Knox County
shortly after the close of the Revolutionary War.  Of his family there were
a number of children who settled in Knox and adjoining counties and became
useful and influential citizens, one of the sons, Joseph Chambers, filling
many offices of public trust.  He was a strong, pure, intelligent man, whose
influence is still felt in the county.  Our subject's mother was of a family
as strong, physically and mentally, as that of the father, and although not
so early in the county, have aided largely in its development.  Her name
was Rachael Keith, and the family moved from Kentucky to this State about
1820.  His parents were married in 1838 and soon after settled at Edwards-
port, where the father, Alexander Chambers, engaged in the milling business.
This venture proved disastrous, and soon after they moved upon a farm in
Widner Township, which they developed and improved, and where they died in
the year 1866, leaving behind these children:  Nancy A., Elliott, Lottie C.,
Johnson and Smiley N.  They received the best education afforded by the
public schools of the county.  Soon after the death of his parents, Smiley
N. entered the college at Alton, Ill., where he graduated in June 1870.  In
1863, when scarcely eighteen years of age, he volunteered his services in
the One Hundred and Fifteenth Indiana Regiment for six months, and afterwards
in the 100 days' service in the Twenty-fifth Indiana Battery and took part
in the battle of Nashville, December 15 and 16, 1864.  He was discharged at
Indianapolis in July, 1865, having attained the position of sergeant in the
battery.  Having read law one year in St. Louis, in 1871 he began the 
practice of that profession in Vincennes, where he has since continued,
meeting with merited success.  In 1872 he was candidate for the Legislature
on the Republican ticket, and although defeated, received the full support
of his party.  He is a member and secretary of the board of trustees of the
Vincennes University and a member of the Presbyterian Church.  In 1876 he
married Isadora McCord, daughter of William and Eliza (Caborn) McCord, a
highly accomplished and intelligent lady.  Their life has been happy and
prosperous and their future promised to be exceptionally bright.
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