{"id":946,"date":"2012-08-19T14:33:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T19:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=946"},"modified":"2023-06-12T13:02:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:02:49","slug":"chambers-henry-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/chambers-henry-a\/","title":{"rendered":"CHAMBERS, Henry A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Chattanooga<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHAMBERS, Henry A., <\/strong>attorney at law; born Iredell Co., N. C., May 17, 1841; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Joseph <\/strong>and<strong> Ellen (Cashion) CHAMBERS<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandfather <strong>Henry CHAMBERS<\/strong>, paternal grandmother <strong>Jane (Cowan) CHAMBERS<\/strong>, maternal grandfather <strong>James CASHION<\/strong>, maternal grandmother <strong>Mary (Barkley) CASHION<\/strong>; educated Olin High School, Iredell Co., N. C., Davidson College (N. C.); married first <strong>Laura LENOIR<\/strong> Jan. 30, 1867; married second <strong>Mrs. Lizzie W. TURNER<\/strong> Dec 31, 1895; became a Free Mason and a member A. F. and A. M. Lodge 217, Morganton, N. C., S. W. of same; Tellico Lodge No. 80, F. &amp; A. M., Madisonville, Tenn., secretary and S. W. and W. M. of same; Tennessee No. 204. F. and A. M., Loudon, Tenn.; J. W., S. W. and W. M. of same; S. G. W.; D. G. M.; \u00a0G. M. of Grand Lodge F. &amp; A. M. of Tenn.; Democrat; left school to enter Confederate service in the war between the states; ensign and private Co. C, 4<sup>th<\/sup> Regiment North Carolina Infantry 1861-2; captain Co. C, 49<sup>th<\/sup> Regiment N. C. Troops C. S. A. from Dec. 3, 1862, to April 9, 1865; wounded at Five Forks, Va., April 1, 1865, carried in ambulance to Appomattox (Va.) surrendered April 9, 1865; at close of war taught school while reading law; became a Free Mason at Morgantown (N. C. ) June, 1865, to Jan., 1867; practiced law at Madisonville (Tenn.) 1867 to 1874, at Loudon, Tenn., 1874 to 1888, and entered the practice at Chattanooga (Tenn.) late in the year 1888; representative in the Tennessee General Assembly from Monroe Co., 1871-2; senator from the 6<sup>th<\/sup> Senatorial District Tenn. General Assembly 1877; U. S. postage stamp agent New York 1877; P. O. inspector 1878 to 1881; alderman of Chattanooga (Tenn.) 1902 to 1908 and again in 1910; member of law firm of Richmond, Chambers &amp; Cooper, Chattanooga (Tenn.); ruling elder Presbyterian church; member of First Presbyterian church, Chattanooga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Chattanooga CHAMBERS, Henry A., attorney at law; born Iredell Co., N. C., May 17, 1841; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Joseph and Ellen (Cashion) CHAMBERS; father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandfather Henry CHAMBERS, paternal grandmother Jane (Cowan) CHAMBERS, maternal grandfather James CASHION, maternal grandmother Mary (Barkley) CASHION; educated Olin High School, Iredell Co., N. C., Davidson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,433,4407,4419],"tags":[697,695,694,696,698,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hamilton","7":"category-monroe","8":"category-surname-c","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-barkley","11":"tag-cashion","12":"tag-chambers","13":"tag-cowan","14":"tag-lenoir","15":"tag-turner","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14863,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/14863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}