Biographical Sketch of Chambers, Marney & Co., St. Joseph, Buchanan 
County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Chambers, Marney & Co., wholesale and retail dry goods dealers on
Felix, between Fifth and Sixth Streets, rank with the eminently
successful men of this country.  Commencing in 1866, with exceedingly
limited capital, they soon succeeded in building up a retail trade
second to none in their line in St. Joseph.  Exclusive of their
wholesale trade, they did, in 1880, a retail business of $175,000.
Their store, in one of the most elegant blocks in the city, is one
of the most attractively arranged and substantially stocked in St.
Joseph.  Till 1881, the firm was Chambers & Marney.  R. H. Chambers,
the senior member, a native of Canada, was born in 1838; he has re-
sided in the United States from early boyhood, and was educated in
the dry goods business, a calling which he has pursued all his life 
with unfailing success.  He was married to Miss Alice C. Wheelock,
in Ogdensburg, New York.  By this marriage he has three children,
two boys and a girl.  E. L. Marney, was born in Rouse's Point, New
York, in September, 1841; here he received his early and subsequent
business education.  From 1857 to 1859, when he embarked in his 
present business, Mr. Marney was actively engaged in railroading. In
1873, he married Mrs. Columbia Williams, in Atchison, Kansas.  There
is no more popular business man in St. Joseph than E. L. Marney. The
Co. of the concern is Mr. C. G. Sampson, formerly a clerk in the es-
tablishment.  Previous to his becoming a member of the firm in 1881,
Mr. Sampson had been engaged in mining in Colorado.

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