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Mellen Chamberlain was born on June 4, 1821 in Pembroke, New Hampshire, United States. He was the second of the five children of Moses and Mary (Foster) Chamberlain.
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Mellen Chamberlain was born on June 4, 1821 in Pembroke, New Hampshire, United States. He was the second of the five children of Moses and Mary (Foster) Chamberlain.
He attended the district schools and the Academy in Pembroke; later he assisted his father on the farm and in the business of a country store until 1836, when the family moved to Concord. He prepared for college at the Literary Institute of that place, taught in the district schools during the winters, and aided his father on the farm; he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1844 with special distinction in classical studies. During the college course he taught school three winters in Danvers, Massachussets, and was principal of the High School in Brattleboro, until late in 1846, when he entered the Dane (Harvard) Law School; he was soon made librarian of the school, and received his LL. B. degree in 1848.
He went to live in Chelsea, where he passed the remainder of his days. From 1849 his life was a busy one; while his chief occupation was that of a conveyancer, he soon entered public service as, successively, school committee man, selectman, alderman, and city solicitor. He was elected a representative to the General Court from the thirteenth Suffolk district in 1858 and in 1859, and was appointed a member of the special committee on the revision of the statutes. In 1863 and again in 1864 he was elected a member of the state Senate, and in the latter year was chairman of its judiciary committee. On June 29, 1866, Gov. Bullock appointed him associate justice of the newly created municipal court of Boston; this office he held until December 1870, when Gov. Claflin appointed him chief justice of the municipal court. He remained in this position until August 1878, when he was made librarian of the Public Library of the City of Boston. His special attainments in the study of early American history proved of essential advantage to the Library in bringing that department of the institution up to the high standing already reached in other branches of knowledge. Because of failing health Chamberlain resigned in September 1890. His collection of autographs and manuscripts, begun in 1836, by will became the property of the Boston Public Library and has proved one of the richest sources of information for students of American history. He also wrote the chapter on "The Revolution Impending" in Justin Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America, vol. VI (1888). In 1890 a selection of his writings, edited by Lindsay Swift, was published under the title of John Adams, the Statesman of the American Revolution, with Other Essays and Addresses, Historical and Literary. Under the auspices of a committee of publication of the Massachusetts Historical Society, there was published in 1908 A Documentary History of Chelsea, 1624-1824, in two volumes, from Chamberlain's incomplete manuscript and from ten folio volumes of manuscripts, plans, engravings, photographs, etc. , collected and arranged by him. Uncommon literary quality, combined with judgment, sagacity, and ripe scholarship, marked the style not only of Chamberlain's writings but of his public addresses. His keen memory supplied him, when speaking, with an abundance of illustrations to strengthen and enliven his arguments.
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In person he was tall and erect; in bearing dignified; in nature companionable and affectionate. His strong and commanding countenance gave additional weight and meaning to his words.
In 1849, he married Martha Ann Putnam.