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1 IO CHAMBERLAIN. CHAMKERLAIN. Sunday, they arranged a rude cooling-box and were the first to appear in the Boston market with beef with the animal heat removed before shipment. They were among the first stockholders in the Brigh- ton abattoir. In 1849 Mr. Chamberlain married Mary A., daughter of Timothy and Polly (Flagg) Kendall of Sherborn. Their children are : Sophia Agnes, Lucy Alice (who died April, 1867), Minnie Augusta, and Etta Frances Chamberlain. Mr. Chamberlain is an active member of the Pilgrim church, and has been a member of its standing committee since its foundation. He has served upon the board of aldermen, and for twelve years was upon the board of overseers of the poor. From 1881 to '86 he represented his city in the lower house of the state Legislature, serving upon many important committees, including those on liquor law, public health, public charitable institutions, railroads, metropolitan police, and was chairman of the committee on banks and banking. He is an ardent Republican, and an advocate of radical temperance measures ; a man of strong convictions, highly esteemed and respected, and a valuable member of society. CHAMBERLAIN, MELLEN, son of Moses and Mary (Foster) Chamberlain, was born at Pembroke, Merrimack county, N.H., June 4, 1821. His father, a country mer- chant, like most of that class in those days, cultivated a small farm, between which and the store, the district school and Pembroke Academy, the son passed the first fifteen years of his life. His mother, a grand-daughter of Hon. Abiel Foster of Canterbury, for many terms in Congress between 1783 and 1803, was descended through President John Rogers of Harvard College, from Gov- ernor Thomas Dudley. On the removal of the family to Con- cord, in 1836, Mr. Chamberlain, alternat- ing between teaching, service in his fath- er's store, and the Concord Literary Insti- tute, prepared to enter Dartmouth College in 1840, where he was graduated in 1844 with the class of which Rev. Dr. Alvah Hovey, Hon. Harvey Jewell, Hon. Am- brose A. Ranney, Gov. Charles H. Bell, and Col. John H. George were members. After teaching several years at Brattle- borough, Vermont, he became a member of the Dane law school, Cambridge, late in 1847, and there remained two years, having received the degree of LL. 11. in course. Mr. Chamberlain opened an office in Boston, January, 1849, and June 6th of the same year married Martha Ann, daugh- ter of Colonel Jesse and Elisabeth (Mer- riam) Putnam of Danvers. He began his married life at Chelsea, where he still resides, having served the town and city in various municipal offices. In 1S58 and '59 he was a representa- tive from the 13th Suffolk district in the General Court, and a member of the special committee on the revision of the statutes. For the years 1863 and '64 he was in the state Senate, where, in the latter year, MELLEN CHAMBERLAIN. as chairman of the judiciary committee, he took a leading part in the debates. In July, 1866, he was appointed judge of the municipal court of Boston, and after- wards, chief justice. This office he held until October, 1878, when he entered upon Ins duties as librarian-in-chief of the Bos- ton public library, which office he still holds. His taste for literary and historical studies has been cultivated by foreign travel, and he has made valuable collec- tions of manuscripts which illustrate Amer- ican history. Mr. Chamberlain is a corresponding member of the Royal Society of Northern