1818.
“WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN, A.M., the son of Gen. William and Jane (Eastman) Chamberlain, was born at Peacham, Vt., May 24, 1797 ; and died there, July 16, 1830, Æ. 33. He taught Moor's Charity School at Hanover from 1818 to 1819; read law the next year with Daniel Webster, D.C. 1801, at Boston, Mass. ; was Professor of Latin and Greek at Dartmouth from 1820 to 1830, the year of his death, deeply mourned by the College and its friends.
He married Sarah L., daughter of Dr. Joseph Gilman of Wells, Me., in July, 1823.
William Mellen Chamberlain, D.C. 1845, was his son, and
Mellen Chamberlain, D.C. 1816, his brother.”
It may be added to this brief sketch of one whose early death threw such gloom over the College, that his daughter, Sarah Gilman, became the wife of that admirable scholar, teacher, and man, Rev. John Newton Putnam, of the Class of 1843, who was, fourteen years, Professor in the College of the Greek Language and Literature, and who died, October 22, 1863, on his return from a visit to Europe for his health, when already on a steamer between Halifax and Boston. "Such," writes Dr. Chapman, "was his popular bearing, noble spirit, and intellectual acumen, that no greater disaster could have happened to the College than the loss of this distinguished scholar."
