Hancock County OhArchives Biographies.....Chamberlin, Job 1815 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   JOB CHAMBERLIN, Findlay, was born January 5, 1815, son of Job and Deborah
(Root) Chamberlin, natives of Connecticut, where they married. They subsequently
removed to New York State where to them were born the following named children:
Deborah, Sallie, Nancy, Lucy, Vesta, Julia, Norman and Job. In 1819 the family
came down the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers to Lawrenceburg, and soon after located
at Georgetown, Ind., and two years subsequently at Urbana, Ohio, and in 1822
they settled on Chamberlin's Hill, this county, where, January 8, 1829, Mrs.
Chamberlin died. She called her children around her bed when she was nearing her
last and gave them her usual advice, warning them against the evils of the world
and urging that they meet her in heaven. After the death of his wife, the elder
Job Chamberlin prevailed on his eldest daughter, Deborah Whitman, and her
husband to remove from New York and live with him. Later he married Miss Sarah
Criner and with her removed to a farm six miles west of Findlay, Ohio, where he
died in 1848. He was a Democrat of the old school, but, says his son Job, "he
could not support the new fangled Democracy, and voted for Henry Clay for
President, on account of his protective tariff principles. He supported John Q.
Adams for the same reasons, and for supporting the United States Bank which had
been established to relieve the people from the burden of direct taxation to pay
the war debt. He was willing it should cease when it had accomplished the
purpose for which it was created." He was for non-extension of slavery; was an
active politician, but would not be a candidate for office. He was a Christian,
belonging to the Baptist denomination while in New York, and a Presbyterian at
the time of his death. His second wife died in 1854. In 1835 he divided the hill
farm of 240 acres between his sons Norman and Job. The eldest son was married,
in 1832, to Elizabeth Baker, who died the following year, leaving an infant
son-John B. He then married, in 1834, Miss Eliza Watson, with whom he lived
eleven years, and died. Job, our subject, attended the country schools, walking
several miles distance. He was married, September 20, 1838, to Mary B. Hamilton,
a native of Gallipolis, Ohio, and by her he has three children: Irvin S., Lucy
(married first to Rev. William Barber, deceased, and. second time to George
Woodley), Sophrona J. (married to Samuel McCahan). In 1874 Job Chamberlin, Jr.,
moved to Findlay, Ohio, where he has led a somewhat retired life. In 1882 he
invested means, with his son Irvin S., in the hardware business, with which he
has been connected since. He is a stanch Republican, the oldest living pioneer
of this county, and a worthy, upright gentleman.



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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Findlay Township and Village




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