The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . een years, and deacon of the First Parish twenty-two married Mary, daughter of Captain John Curtis, and was the father ofa distinguished family. One son, John Curtis Chamberlain, became alawyer of note in Charlestown, New Hampshire, and was a member ofCongress; another, Levi Chamberlain, also a lawyer of distinction in NewHampshire, was a member of the Peace Congress of 1861: and a third,Henry Chamberlain, practised law in Maine and Alabama. Thomas Cham-ixrlain, the father of Robert H., was for seventeen years crie
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . een years, and deacon of the First Parish twenty-two married Mary, daughter of Captain John Curtis, and was the father ofa distinguished family. One son, John Curtis Chamberlain, became alawyer of note in Charlestown, New Hampshire, and was a member ofCongress; another, Levi Chamberlain, also a lawyer of distinction in NewHampshire, was a member of the Peace Congress of 1861: and a third,Henry Chamberlain, practised law in Maine and Alabama. Thomas Cham-ixrlain, the father of Robert H., was for seventeen years crier of thecourts in Worcester, and was president of the first Common Council of thecity in 1848. He filled most of the offices in the vState Militia from cor])oralto brigadier-general. He was a man universally respected. Robert H. Chamberlain was educated in the public schools of Worcester,and at the Worcester Academy. He learned the machinists trade, servingan apprenticeship of three years in Ball & Ballards shop on School street. 58o Thu Wof<cesti£r of ROBERT H. CHAMBERLAIN. He left this oecuixitii)n to enlist inCompany A, Fifty-first Alassachu-setts Volunteers, a nine monthsregiment raised in 1862, and wasappointed sergeant. At the end ofthis service he was commissionedfirst lieutenant in the , and was afterwardscaptain, serving imtil musteredout in November, 1864. In 1865he reorganized the Worcester CityGuards, and was captain two the State Militia he passed suc-cessively through the grades ofmajor and colonel to that of brig-adier-general of the Third Chamberlain was a mem-ber of the Common Council of thecity in i869-7o. In 1S70 he wasappointed superintendent of sew-ers, which position he held untili88S, when he was appointed mas-ter of the House of was elected sheriff of the countyin 1892. The duties of this office, which he still holds, have been dis-charged by him with marked ability, and to the satisfacti
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