[p. 613] who carries on general farming and dairying on his well cultivated tract of eighty-three acres of land in North Beaver Township, was born on an adjoining farm, June 4, 1866. He is a son of Hugh and Hannah (Warwick) Chambers.
The Chambers family is one of the old and substantial ones of this section of Lawrence County. Capt. William Chambers, a native of Ireland, the great-grandfather of Harry B. founded it. The grandfather, Samuel Chambers, accompanied his parents from Ireland and was reared in North Beaver Township, where he became a large landowner. The farm owned by Harry B. Chambers was formerly the property of the grandfather who erected the large brick house about 1850, and later the commodious barn and other buildings. Hugh Chambers was twice married and had nine children by the second union and four by the first. He died in March, 1903, on his large farm in North Beaver Township, surviving his second wife, the mother of Harry B., for four years.
Harry B. Chambers was reared on the farm that adjoins his own. He was educated in the country schools and at Grove City College, and then became a teacher. He taught for two years in West New Castle, one year at Moravia and one year at Chewton, meeting with success in the educational field.
In 1889 Mr. Chambers was married to Elizabeth Kelso, a daughter of John Kelso, and they have had five children, namely: Howard, Harvey, Mary, Helen and Elizabeth. Little Mary died in her sixth year. Mr. Chambers came to his present farm in 1899. It is situated on the Mahoningtown-Covert road, about two and one-half miles northwest of the former place and the land is admirably adapted to both farming and dairying.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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