Report of the meetings for organization and of the ..general meeting, together with the president's address, and a list of members . could conquer his mental energy- and power. When so weakthat he could only write a dozen or twenty words, and then give up exhaustedand panting, he labored during five long days on an article, which when fin-ished showed no trace of weakness or fragmentariness. He died at Charlottes-ville, Va., April 13, 1907, and was interred at West Brookfield, Mass. He was one of the early members of this Association, and contributed onehundred dollars toward the establishment
Report of the meetings for organization and of the ..general meeting, together with the president's address, and a list of members . could conquer his mental energy- and power. When so weakthat he could only write a dozen or twenty words, and then give up exhaustedand panting, he labored during five long days on an article, which when fin-ished showed no trace of weakness or fragmentariness. He died at Charlottes-ville, Va., April 13, 1907, and was interred at West Brookfield, Mass. He was one of the early members of this Association, and contributed onehundred dollars toward the establishment of our Bureau of Genealogy. It was a 26 CHAMBERLAIN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA matter of regret that he was able to be present at only one of our annual gather-ings. Much of the material for this sketch has been taken, frequently verbatim,from the memorial by Edward H. Gilbert in the Proceedings of the Massachu-setts Historical Society for October, 1907. The most lengthy sketch of his lifeis contained in a book entitled Governor Chamberlains Administration in SouthCarolina (544 pages), written by Walter Allen, a life-long AlUHAM ClI Govoiiior of Coiimvticut. 1!)():M!)().) PERSONAL RECORDS HON. ABIRAM CHAMBERLAIN Hon. Abir.^m , former Governor of Connecticut, and a promi-nent banker in New England, the guest of this Association at its annual reunionin 1907, was born in the town of Colebrook, Litchfield County, Connecticut, De-cember 7, 1837. His ancestors on both sides were of the oldest and purest NewEngland stock, one of the most distant on his fathers side being Jacob Chamber-lain, who was born in Massachusets in 1673. On his mothers side Mr. Chamber-lain is descended from Henry and Eulalia Burt. Mr. Chamberlains father wasDeacon Abiram Chamberlain, a most skillful and experienced civil engineer andsurveyor, a man of great uprightness and stability of character, and widely knownfor his attractive personality. Mr. Chamberlains mother was Soph
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