Centennial Biography : Men of Mark of Cumberland Valley, Pa., 1776-1876
Centennial Biography : Men of Mark of Cumberland Valley, Pa., 1776-1876
Alfred Nevin
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He assisted in the organization of a number of societies throughout the country, to which he gave freely such pecuniary aid as they required, and before which he was a frequent speaker. The seed which he thus so diligently planted ripened into a rich harvest of blessed results, the intluence of which remains until this da} - . In 181 5 Mr. Chambers was elected a Trustee of the Chambersburg Academy, and afterwards President of the Board, resigning the trust after a tenure of forty-five years, be...cause of the increasing infirmities of age. In the same year he was chosen one of the Trustees of the Presby- terian Church of Chambersburg, and in due time became President of the Board, from which lie retired in July, 1864. He was also for many years a Director of the Bank of Chambers- burg, in 1836 was chosen its President, and annually re-elected until pressing business engagements compeiied him to decline re-election. The mention of these unostentatious but useful and responsible employments is not improper here, for it serves to illustrate how Mr.
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