Hiram S. Chamberlain

        Hiram S. Chamberlain was born at Franklin, Portage Co., Ohio, August 6, 1835, the fourth in a family of eight children born to Leander and Susanna (Willey) Chamberlain. The parents were natives of Vermont, the father's birth occurring in Addison County, April 16, 1804, as were also his father, Leander, born in 1766 and his grandfather, Peleg, who was born in 1736. The mother was a native of New Haven; she died in March 1887. In the year 1840 the family moved to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where the father died in August, 1884. Hiram S. received his education at what is now Hiram College, attending that institution during President Garfield's tutorage. He taught school winters during his stay at Hiram, but left college in order to go to the front to fight for the preservation of the Union. In July, 1861, be enlisted as a private in the Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and remained at Camps Chase and Dennison until December of that year, when his regiment was ordered to the front. The first month after his enlistment he was appointed quartermaster-sergeant; in October, 1862, was commissioned second lieutenant, and February 26, 1863, he was promoted to first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster. He was quartermaster of Carter's cavalry division under Gen. Burnside at Knoxville, when it was captured from the Confederates in September, 1863. May 24, 1864, he was commissioned captain and assistant quartermaster by President Lincoln, and during the remainder of the war served in that capacity. At the close of the war, Capt. Chamberlain engaged in the iron business, to which he has since chiefly devoted his attention. He resided at Knoxville until 1871, then removed to Chattanooga, and is at present president and manager of the Roan Iron Company, also president and leading stockholder of the Citico Furnace Company and vice-president of the First National Bank. Capt. Chamberlain is one of the best posted men on mineralogy in the South, and it is to his knowledge of this valuable science that his present financial prosperity is largely due. September 4, 1867, he married Miss Amelia I. Morrow, who was born at Knoxville, December 3, 1841. Six children have been born to them, all at Knoxville except the youngest two, who were born at Chattanooga: Minnie Morrow, born January 28, 1869; Mary Hattie, born July 9, 1871, died November 9, 1873; Susie Willey, born June 4, 1874, Louise A., born May 23, 1877; Morrow, born December 12, 1879, and Hiram Sanborn, born June 26, 1882.
Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887