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- Goshen Daily News
February 17, 1899
Eldridge G. Chamberlain died of Bright's disease and old age this morning at his home on East Lincoln avenue, shortly after five o'clock, after several month's illness.
For nine months has this pioneer suffered the ravages of Bright's disease, and it was considered certain that the end could not be far off. A short time before his death this morning Mr. Chamberlain expressed a desire to get up and was assisted to a chair. He soon asked to be helped to his bed, and in a few moments after he lay down the long and splendid career of the gentleman was at an end. He passed peacefully away.
Eldridge G. Chamberlain, who had so long been a resident of Goshen and whose life was so much connected with this city's history that his influence in its affairs may be traced back almost three score and ten years, was born August 23, 1811, at Orrington, Maine, where his youth and early manhood was spent and where he cast his forst vote for Andrew Jackson in 1832 in the great contest between Jackson and Clay. During the year 1833 Mr. Chamberlain came to Goshen, preceding his brother, the late Judge Ebenezer M. Chamberlain who later cast his fortunes with the Indiana commonwealth. Since that time Eldridge G. Chamberlain has been identified as a conspicious figure with the affairs of the city and county and this section of the state.
He was elected justice of the peace and served so long that "memory of man runneth not to the contrary," and during all those years as a citizen and a magistrate his career was useful to the people of the locality. Possessing an acute mind and broad principles his decisions were always ruled by law and conscience, and the record he made was one which should be emulated by the magistrates of the present date. He was a man of wide reading and pleasing address and the respect and confidence he obtained from the people was no doubt his most precious reward. He was county clerk seven years, being the second clerk of the county, county recorder seven years and served as postmaster for eight years and in these positions his official career was the same success as that which characterized his life as a magistrate and citizen.
While he was never been so much of a partisan to deny any man respect for opinions, and was agreeable in any political remark, Mr. Chamberlain was always a democrat and conscientiously espoused the principles of his party, voting for every democratic president elected from 1832 to 1892.
He was married at Le Roy, New York, to Aveline E. Hascall, a sister of Mrs. Ebenezer Chamberlain, the wife of the brother. Besides the widow, three children survive him. They are Thomas J., of Detroit; Charles F., of East Chicago; and Mrs. Isabelle Miller of Morenci, Mich., and who has recently been living in Detroit.
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Pioneer History of Elkhart County, Indiana
Eldridge G. Chamberlain came to Goshen in 1835, and was a resident of the city sixty-three years. He served as county clerk seven years, county recorder seven years, postmaster eight years and justice of the peace thirty six years. While serving in the latter office he officiated at more than five hundred marriages.
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1811 - 1899 (87 years)
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