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Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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and has attained agoodly measure of that success which such efforts merit. Thelaw firm of Ward B. & George F. Chamberlin, of which he is thehead, with offices at No. 31 Nassau Street, New York, enjoys alarge and lucrative practice, especially in matters pertaining toreal estate — in New York one of the most important branchesof the profession. The Messrs. Chamberlin are members of theLawyers Title Insurance Company, and are among its examin-ing counsel. They are also legal advisers to numerous estates,and other properties, owned by individuals and corporations. Mr. Chamberlin has never been a club-man in the com-mon meaning of that term. He is, however, connected with anumber of professional and social organizations of the best class. He was married, in 1871, to Miss Elizabeth F. Barker, adaughter of James W. Barker, a retired merchant of New York.Their only child, Ward Bryan Chamberlin, Jr., is, at the date ofthis sketch, a student in Princeton University, Princeton, NewJersey.
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JAMES SULLIVAN CLARKSON TAMES SULLIVAN CLARKSON comes of English stock,V traced back to the fifteenth century. He is of the samefamily as Thomas Clarkson, the English abolitionist, and alsothe Clarksons of Wiesbach, Cambridgeshire, several of whomwere at different times in the faculty of Cambridge UniversityThe Clarksons came to the United States in 1778, settlingfirst m New Hampshire and afterward in Maine, where Cokerdarkson was born. He married Elizabeth Goudie, whowas born in BrownviUe, Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish extrac-tion and m 1820 moved to BrookviUe, Indiana, where, on May17, 1842, then- son, J. S. Clarkspn, was born. At the age oftwelve, having already worked at the printers trade in theoffice of the Indiana American, owned by his father, the boyremoved with his father to a farm in Iowa. His education wasgained m his fathers Indiana newspaper office, and in thecountry schools of the Iowa prairies. He afterward taught schoolm Iowa for three winters. From earliest boyhood M

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