My Genealogy Hound

CHARLES R. CHAMBERLIN, one of the prosperous and substantial farmers of Hopewell township, was born in 1861, on his father’s farm in Hopewell township, son of Charles and grandson of Jesse Chamberlin, the family being of Scotch-Irish extraction.

Charles Railing Chamberlin, obtained his education in the public schools, and assisted on the home farm until the age of twenty-six, when he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Reese, daughter of Adam and Jane (Walters) Reese, natives of Southampton township, Cumberland county, but later, residents of Lurgan township, Franklin county. Mrs. Reese died in 1902, and was buried at Shippensburg, but he still survives and is a resident of Franklin county. The children born to Adam Reese and wife were: Adam, who lives near Leesburg, Cumberland county; Cyrus, of Shippensburg; J. B., who died young in Elk county; Elizabeth, wife of our subject; Martin, a farmer in Franklin county; and Carrie, who also is a resident of the same township, in Franklin county.

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlin, in 1888, located on the home farm, which he operated for five and a half years. In the year following his father’s death, 1903, he bought the home farm. It had been well improved by the elder Mr. Chamberlin, and the substantial buildings, with the exception of the wagon shed, were placed there by him. The farm contains 153 acres, well located, along the Ridge road. Mr. Chamberlin is a careful, practical farmer, and his place is one of the best managed in this locality.

Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlin have four sons: Clarence, Charles, Adam and Mark, and one daughter, Anna Mary. The eldest son has a record of Sunday-school attendance of four years without a single-absence mark, a pretty good indication that he, like his father before him, will be a man of punctual business habits.

Since 1892 Mr. Chamberlin has been an active member of the Middle Spring Presbyterian Church, for over six years serving as trustee, and a useful worker in the Sabbath-school. Politically, he is a Democrat, and he has acceptably served as school director and as township clerk.