History of Macon County, Illinois.  With Illustrations Descriptive Of 
Its Scenery, and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and 
Pioneers.  Published by Brink, McDonough & Co., Phildelphia, 1880.  
Reproduced through efforts of The Decatur Genealogical Society, 1972. p. 
223 [Bourbon County].

THOMAS CHAMBERS was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, May 15th, 1827.  
James Chambers, his father, was also a native of the same state.  He was 
a soldier in the war under the command of General William H. Harrison.  
In 1835 he moved to Indiana, where he lived eighteen months; then came 
to Illinois and settled in Vermillion county, and remained there six 
years, then came to Macon county, and settled permanently in Oakley 
township.  He here entered forty acres of land, and purchased forty 
acres of school land in section 26, T. 17, R. 4 E.  He remained in 
Oakley township until his death, which took place, August 25, 1877, in 
the seventy-fifty year of his age. He married Nancy Buoy.  She died 
about the year 1855.  By this marriage there were five children, three 
sons and two daughters; all living except Mary, who was married to 
Daniel Dickey.  Laban is the eldest son.  He was a soldier in the war 
with Mexico, and was wounded at the battle of Cerro Gordo, and suffered 
the amputation of his right arm.  Thomas is the youngest son and fourth 
in the family.  He received but an indifferent education in his youth.  
Confinement in school-houses was irksome to his naturally bouyant 
disposition.  He could never bear confinement.  He wanted to roam around 
and enjoy the fine free air.  This is his disposition yet.  After the 
family removed to Macon county, Thomas purchased land in section 21, 
Town 17, Range 4.  It was unimproved.  Here he has resided up to the 
present time, and now has one of the best farms in the township.  He 
married Miss Mary, daughter of Robert and Jennie Gates.  Mr. Gates was a 
native of Kentucky, and his wife, of Tennessee.  He died on a trip to 
California in 1849, and Mrs. Gates died in Missouri.
        There have been born to Thomas and Mary Chambers six children, 
five of whom are living.  Their names are Margaret Ellen, wife of James 
K. Peck, Effie, Jane, Elizabeth Emma, and William R. Chambers.  
Politically Mr. Chambers is a republican.  Before the formation of the 
Republican party he was an old-line whig, and cast his first 
presidential vote for General Taylor in 1848.
        Mr. Chambers has always followed the occupation of farming and 
stock raising and stock trading, in all of which he has been very 
successful.  He started in life poor; and waht he has, has been the 
accumultion of patient toil, the practice of economical habits.  In his 
manners he is pleasant and agreeable, and in his home a hospitable 
gentleman.

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