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BIOGRAPHIES
 Source:
A Twentieth Century History & Biological Record of
Elkhart County, Indiana
by Anthony Deahl
Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company
1905
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ALBERT N.
CHAMBERLAIN is well known throughout this
county and this section of the state as the
proprietor of the A. N. Chamberlain Medicine
Company, manufacturers of the A. N. Chamberlain
remedies, which have achieved a reputation as
reliable and efficacious medical specifics.
The Chamberlain's Immediate Relief, pills and
salve, have held their places as a medicine for over
half a century. The business was established
by Mr. Chamberlain and his father in 1850,
and is the oldest and longest continued enterprise
of the kind in this county.
Mr. Chamberlain was born in Onondaga county, New
York, in what is now the city of Syracuse, Dec. 27,
1832, a son of Milo and Elizabeth (Smith)
Chamberlain. Each of the parents was twice
married and had children by each union. When
Albert N. was a year old his parents moved to
Geneseo, Livingston county, New York, where he was
reared, being educated in the Geneseo schools and
Temple Hill College. He was in the printing
business a while at Nunday Valley and also in a tin
shop, and in 1850 he drove through the oil regions
of Pennsylvania, where he was engaged for a time in
preparing milk tanks, and in the same year arrived
in Elkhart. At this point receiving news of
ill luck on the part of his brother in California,
he remained in this city and went to work at the tin
trade. He and his father had come here
together, and they soon established the medicine
business which the son has since continued with such
remarkable success. Mr. Chamberlain has
resided on lot 1 in Elkhart continuously since 1851,
and is numbered among the oldest residents of the
city.
Mr. Chamberlain married, May 17, 1859, Miss
Mary Sanders of Bristol, Indiana, who died Dec.
24, 1883. She was the mother of the following
children: Eva, who died in infancy; Garrie,
deceased; Albert, deceased; Laura, Mrs. G.
W. Evans, of Fort Wayne; Milo R., Dean S.
and Mary E. On May 9, 1888, Mr.
Chamberlain married Lovina Spencer, who
is his present wife.
While a stanch Republican, Mr. Chamberlain has
never held nor aspired to office. He has been
a Master Mason since 1858, and various members of
the family have taken a prominent part in the order
for many years. Mr. Chamberlain has
been identified very intimately with the affairs of
Elkhart since he came here, and the first jewelry
and notion store in town, on the corner of Main and
Jackson, was conducted by him, although for only a
short time.
Source: A Twentieth Century History & Biological Record of
Elkhart County, Indiana
by Anthony Deahl -
Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company -
1905 - Page 484 |
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