James Hutchison Chambers and Kate R. Brenner

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Husband James Hutchison Chambers ¹

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           Born: 21 May 1838 - Allegheny Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: John B. Chambers (1813-1886) 2 3
         Mother: Martha Guthrie (1811-      ) 4

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       Marriage: 28 May 1867 3

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Wife Kate R. Brenner ³

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           Born: 15 Dec 1847 - Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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         Father: George Brenner (1813-      ) 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Mahaffey (1812-      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Edith McCrum Chambers ⁵

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           Born: 5 Oct 1869 5
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General Notes: Husband - James Hutchison Chambers

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He spent much of his early life in his father's store. He attended the common schools, completed his academic course at Saltsburg academy and taught two terms in the schools of his native county. In 1858 he went to Missouri where he found a better field for teaching than then existed in Pennsylvania. He taught till 1861, when he returned home and enlisted as Sergeant in Co. C, 103d reg., Pa. Vols. He participated in all of the battles of the Peninsula under McClellan, was then transferred to North Carolina where he took part in the engagements of Kingston, White Hall, Goldsboro and Plymouth. At the last named battle he was wounded and taken prisoner with Co. F, to which he had been transferred. He was confined in the Confederate prisons at Macon, Georgia, Charleston, South Carolina, where he was placed under the fire of the Union batteries and Char-lotte, North Carolina. On March 1, 1865, he was pa-roled for exchange and was honorably discharged from the service at Annapolis, Maryland, after serving six months beyond his time of enlist-ment. He was color-bearer of his regiment until 1863, when he was commissioned Sergeant-Major. On May 20, 1863, he was promoted to second Lieutenant of Co. F, and July 4th, for meritorious bravery, was promoted to first Lieu-tenant. After the war he engaged in mercantile business for two years. From 1869 to 1870 he was in the oil business, then embarked again in merchandising at Apollo, which he quit in 1875 to become register and recorder of Armstrong county. After serving two terms he was elected sheriff in 1883. In 1886 he became cashier of Du Bois (Pa.) Deposit Bank and served till 1887. In 1889 he with several others pro-jected the Chambers' House at Apollo, which was opened on February 6, 1890. He was a presbyterian, a decided republican and a member of the G. A. R., I. O. O. F. and A. Y. M. [BHCWC 1890, 719]

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 718.

2 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 236x.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 719.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 561, 719.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 720.