History of Claiborne County Mississippi United States of America

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Jeremiah Chamberlain Biography

Jeremiah Chamberlain, educator, was born in Adams county, Pa., Jan. 5, 1794; son of Col. James Chamberlain, an officer in the revolutionary army. He was graduated at Dickinson college in 1814, and after a three-years course at Princeton theological seminary he was licensed to preach in 1817. He spent a year in the south as a missionary, and in 1818 accepted a call to the church at Bedford, Pa. In 1822 he became president of Centre college, Kentucky, and held the office until 1825, placing the school on a firm basis. During his administration he preached regularly. He resigned the presidency of Centre college in 1825 to accept that of Louisiana college, remaining there until 1828, when he established a private school in Jackson, La. In 1830 he founded and was elected president of Oakland college, Claiborne county, Miss., to which work he devoted the rest of his life. He received the degree of D. D. from Centre college in 1825. He died by the hand of an assassin, a student of the college, Sept. 5, 1850.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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