Eli Chambers and Lydia J. Harvey

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Husband Eli Chambers ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1836 - near Pleasant Unity, Mt. Pleasant Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: William Chambers (1796-1851) 1 2 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Ryan Leasure (      -1840) 1 3

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       Marriage: 20 Feb 1873 4

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Wife Lydia J. Harvey ^{1 4}

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1 F Belle L. Chambers ⁴

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2 F Edith E. Chambers ⁴

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3 M William Harvey Chambers ⁴

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4 M Charles Arthur Chambers ⁴

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5 F Alice B. Chambers ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Eli Chambers

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He spent his boyhood on a farm and in a mill. He received his education in the common schools and Sewickley academy. At twenty-one years of age he commenced to work for his brothers, J. L. and D. L. Chambers, who were engaged in milling and grain buying and a general shipping business, and continued with them for nearly four years. In April, 1861, he enlisted in Co. K, eleventh Pa. Vols., and at the end of his three months term of service re-enlisted in Co. K, fifty-third Pa. Infantry Vols., and was honorably discharged January 20, 1863, on account of physical disability contracted in the army. He enlisted as a private, was promoted corporal, and participated during his term of service in the battles of Falling Water, Siege of Yorktown, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Fair Oaks, Gaines’ Mills, Malvern Hill and Antietam, as well as in many smaller engagements and skirmishes of the war. When Lee invaded Pennsylvania, although crippled badly, he assisted in raising Co. B, fifty-fourth Reg., State Militia, refused to become its captain, but accepted a lieutenancy, and his regiment, the fifty-fourth, assisted in the capture of the great Confederate cavalry chieftan, John H. Morgan, at Wellesville, Ohio. After his third term of service had expired Lieut. Chambers located at Latrobe, and in 1867 went into partnership with his brother, J. L. Chambers, in the general grain business, which occupied his time and attention until 1869, when he took the place of his brother in the milling business, continuing therein five years. In 1887 he was made the republican candidate for treasurer of Westmoreland County, and was elected by a neat majority in a very close contest. [BHCWC, 64]

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 605.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 63.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 379.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 64.