When James Franklin Chambers was born on 4 September 1848, in Shelby, Ohio, United States, his father, Matthew Ten Eyck Chambers, was 21 and his mother, Elizabeth Ann Havens, was 23. He married Oneida "Ida" White on 9 September 1868, in Fulton, Whiteside, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Danville Township, Vermilion, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Putman Township, Fulton, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 10 March 1922, in Bernadotte Township, Fulton, Illinois, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Bernadotte Township, Fulton, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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English:
from Middle English chaumbre ‘room (in a house); reception room in a palace or official building’ (Old French chambre). It is identical in implied function with the Chamberlain , which denoted an official: to pay in cameram was to pay into the exchequer, of which the camerarius or chamberer was in charge. The surname also applied to clerks employed there. As the office of Chamberlain rose in the social scale, this term remained reserved for more humble servants of the bedchamber or private quarters.
(of Norman origin): habitational name from Les Chambres, Manche (France).
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