Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-09-08

Grimm, L., Sept. 4, 1915.
Editor Tensas Gasette,'
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Delawarisn and after graduating In
medicine came to Mississippi and
settled some time between 1885 and
1910, practiced his profession In what
Is known as the Maryland settlement,
near Church Hill, Miss, its name orr
ginated from the fact that q great
many Maryland people located In this
vicinity. My uncle, Mr.. James Archer
my mother, who was Miss Laura
Archer and her sister, Mrs. DR.. Cham
berlain, nee Palmelis Archer, all of
whom were natives of Hartford coun-
ty, Maryland, near Baltimore. All
lived in the Maryland settlement until
the Civil War ended. Mr.. James
Archer died there and the rest moved
away. DR.. Chamberlain sold his home
there and moved and located in Nat.
chez, Miss, and purchased q third in
terest in the dry goods business of A.
T. Cunning & Co., and put his Oldest
son, the late Charles T. Chamberlain,
in business with this firm and the firm
was always afterwards known as
Chamberlain & Patterson, his youngest
son, George E. Chamberlain, attended
school first near his home I'm the
Maryland settlement (where he was
born), my mother taught him and
myself in 1857, and one day she told
cher sister, his mother, that II George
lived he would make his mark, and
she said, "Why do you tell me this,
Laurs?" "Because he h 90 truthful
and honest and a boy who has these
good qualities Is bound to mske his
mark" After his father moved to
Natchez, he put him at the public
school, the Matches Institute. where
he graduated in the early part of 1870,
and then went to Virginia and at
tended General Robert Lees College,
and after graduatingthere returned to
his home in Natchez to bid his family
and all of his friends goodbye since
he was going West and settle and help
to build up that country, so he left
for Portland, Oregon, and settled
there; said he had ten thousand dol
lars in Britton & Koontz Bapk in Nat
chez, and that he was not going to
touch cent of it, SO when he reached
Portland, he went into the harvest
field and worked for one dollar q day
for q long time when . lawyer in
Portland took fancy to him and per-
suaded him to 60 into his law Office
with him and read law which he did,
and after graduating in law was ap.
pointed the first Attorney General of
the State of Oregon, was District At
torney there and held an important
position in bank there also. His
friends there asked him to come out
for Governor of the State of Oregon,
and he said, 81 have not the shadow
OF chance to be elected a. there are
forty thousand Republican majority in
the State, as I am a Democrat" After
prevailing on him to run he concluded
to do SO and was twice elected Gov
ernor, and after having been elected,
his election had to be ratified by
Republican Legislature and after hav-
ing served his second term as Gov
ernor, his friends brought him out for
the United States Senate from that
District and he was elected and last
October he was reelected for the
second term (of 8 years., and now he
is Chairman of Military Affairs, in the
United States Senate.
So my mother's prediction came
true. am at Griffin, Madison parish,
La, on business, crops of cotton will
be short in this vicinity owing to boil
wevils and rain.
With best wishes, am,
Yours truly,
IA. TURPIN.
P.S. / neglected to tell you In
writing the sketch of the life of George
E. Chamberlain, that his great grand
father, the Hon. Charles Thompson,
was secretary of the Continental
Congress In 1774, and this body pre-
sented him with large silver urn in
on 1t, presented to Charles
Thompson by the Continental Con-
gress for valuable services rendered
this body, 1774." and my cousin, DR..
Charles Chamberlain, in Natchez,
Miss, has it now to be handed down
to those bearing the name of Charles
Thompson. I have seen 1t, 1t is per-
fectly beautiful. When you have
George Chamberlain letter published
please return 1t to me ct Waterproof.
He George Chsmberlain) }, says what
he liked about Oregon, was that every
body worked and was not ashamed to
do 90, since the sons of the richest
men drive wagons through the streets
OF Portland. Please send q dozen OF
your papers to me at Griffin, Madison
parish, La, and let me know what I
owe and will send amount to you.
George Chamberlain was engaged
to Miss Sallie WEIGH, q school girl, of
IA years of age, when he left for Ore.
gon and some ten years afterwards
came back to Natchez to claim his
bride and after the ceremony was per-
formed, there came to him Q telegram
from Portland, Oregon, signed by eli