Background
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar was born on August 6, 1851 in Newbury, Vermont, United States. Son of Abner and Mary (Haseltine) Chamberlin.
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar was born on August 6, 1851 in Newbury, Vermont, United States. Son of Abner and Mary (Haseltine) Chamberlin.
Educated in Wisconsin.
Was connected with staff Chicago Times, 1871-1881. Editor Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News, 1881-1882, Fall River (Massachusetts) Daily Herald, 1882-1884, Boston Record, 1884-1886. Member of staff of the Boston Transcript, 1886-1901.
Assistant editor Youth’s Companion, 1890-1901.
Literary editor, editorial writer and art critic, New York Evening Mail, 1901-1915. Editorial writer, Boston Transcript, 1915-1933.
Writer of “Listener” and “Nomad” columns, Boston Transcript. War correspondent New York Evening Post, in Cuba, 1898.
Author: The Listener in the Town, 1896.
The Listener in the Country, 1896. Life of John Brown (in Beacon Biographies), 1899. The Ifs of History, 1907.
The Boston Transcript—A History of Its First Hundred Years, 1931.
Home: Boston, Massachusetts
Member of staff of the Boston Transcript, 1886-1901.
Married Ida East. Atwood, June 26, 1873. Married second, Leonilda Farnese Lowry, June 8, 1915. Children: Helen, Charles (deceased), Elisabeth, Corda (deceased), Raymond (deceased), Eleanor.