Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Chambers, C. B. 1849 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 11, 2005, 6:40 pm Author: C. H. Ellis C. B. CHAMBERS, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, June 19, 1849. His father, Abraham Chambers, a native of the same county and, state, was born December 12, 1819. He was an iron smelter by trade, following farming the last active years of his life. Subsequently he came to Faulk county, territory of Dakota, and made his home with the subject of this sketch, where he died. He was a descendant of Abraham Chambers who served in the Revolutionary War on the American side, and his uncle, General Robert Chamber was one of the founders of Chambersburg, Pennysylvania. The mother of our subject, Ann Mary (Atkinson) Chambers, was a native of Pennsylvania, of English ancestry. Her father, John Atkinson, was born at Kendall, England, and was a son of Robert Atkinson. He came to America when a boy, previous to the Revolutionary War. The subject of this sketch was the second son in a family of seven children, and was reared in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the family had moved in 1854. His father and oldest brother entered the service in the Union Army in the Civil War from Indiana. The subject of this sketch attended the city schools at Indianapolis, and at the age of seventeen years left home and went to Iowa, where he hired to his uncle and remained with him two }rears. His father then moved to Iowa, and this son went into partnership with him, and engaged in farming in Green county, until 1883, when he came to Dakota Territory and squatted on the north-west quarter of section 7, township 120, north, range 66, west. He later filed a tree claim on other land and filed a homestead on the south-east quarter of the same section. He erected a shanty 8x10 on the tree claim, but lived with neighbors across the road. His parents came to Dakota in the spring of 1884, and resided on section 10, township 120, range 67, where the subject of this sketch established a general store, and was also postmaster of the Roanoke postoffice for seven years, which was located at his store, while his father ran the mail route from Roanoke to Northville, in Spink county. In 1889 he permanently located on his homestead on section 7, township 120, range 66, and continued to do business until 1894, since which time he has engaged in farming, has been a dealer in real estate, justice of the peace, and notary public. When he located in Dakota in 1883, he had many experiences; among them, encountering swollen streams, while hauling his goods to his farm in the spring of 1884. His crops were hailed out in that year, and again in 1898, but they averaged ten bushels per acre. He had two teams and some farming machinery, when he started for Dakota and in 1899 owned six quarter sections of land, about five hundred acres of which were under plow; he had a complete set of farm buildings, and raised wheat, cattle and horses. He had thirty-four head of stock on his farm, including one registered Percheron stallion named Black Diamond. In 1900 he removed to Faulkton, and engaged in real estate business to which he has given his attention up to the present time. He has a residence in Faulkton, an illustration of which may be seen on Page 493 of this history. Mr. Chambers has a real estate office on eighth avenue and with his rented farms to look after, is doing an extensive real estate business. Additional Comments: From: HISTORY OF FAULK COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS ILLUSTRATED 19O9 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/sd/faulk/bios/gbs151chambers.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/sdfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb