John M. Chambers

Birth Date

1833-06-19

Death Date

1928

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Kenton County, Kentucky, physician, farmer, and soldier. Madison, Indiana, native. Educated in the Jefferson County, Indiana. Graduate of the College of Franklin in 1854. Studied medicine under Dr. J. R. Halderman of Madison. Assessor in Jefferson County. School commissioner in Jefferson County. Graduate of the University of New York in 1859. Began practicing medicine in Independence, Kentucky in from 1859 to 1887. Colonel of the 60th Regiment of Kentucky Militia in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Independence, p. 1.
W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State (Louisville: F. A. Battery and Co., 1887), 764-765.
_Find A Grave, "Dr. John M. Chambers (June 19, 1833-1928)," Memorial #70215174, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70215174 (accessed May 17, 2017).
KYR-0002-022-0075.

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