When Samuel Chambers was born in 1868, in Shelby, Indiana, United States, his father, William Blair Chambers, was 35 and his mother, Louisa Green, was 27. He lived in Clarinda, Page, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Pratt, Pratt, Kansas, United States in 1900.
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Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
Historical Boundaries: 1884: Pratt, Kansas, United States
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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