BIOGRAPHIES:  George Harris CHAMBERLIN, Rock Falls, Dunn County, WI

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George Harris Chamberlin, general merchant, Rock Falls, Dunn county, was born 
in Canaan, Grafton county, N. H., January 12, 1824.  His parents, Preston and 
Laura (Huntley) Chamberlin, were natives of Newbury and Topsham, Orange county, 
Vt., and his grandparents, Joseph and Anna (McAllister) Chamberlin, were 
natives of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, respectively.  During the infancy
of our subject, his parents removed to West Brunswick, N. Y., but later on 
returned to Newbury, Vt., where George H. received the principal part of his 
education.  He then went to Manchester, N. H., and worked in a meat market for 
two years, then moved to Clinton, Mass., where he followed the same business 
for two years and a half.  He then came west to Wisconsin and lived for awhile 
in Briggsville, Marquette county.  In 1856 he came to Rock Falls, Dunn county, 
and bought 400 acres of land, and in the following year built the Rock falls 
flour-mills, and conducted the same until 1861.  He then formed a partnership 
with his father-in-law, Mr. Weston, and carried on a store in connection with 
the flour mill until 1869, when they sold out the mill.  In 1884 Mr. Weston was 
taken ill and died, and since that time Mr. Chamberlin has carried on the store 
and farmed.   June 29, 1852, Mr. Chamberlin married Miss Antionette Weston, and 
this union has been blessed with five children:  Daniel, Jehiel, Frank, George 
and Nettie.  He is a republican in politics and in 1881 served a term in the 
assembly.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley 
Wisconsin, 1891-2", page 895.