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He remained with us until the end of Sophomore Fall
term, at which time he bade adieu to college life and went to Pittsfield, New Hampshire,
and commenced the study of medicine with John Wheeler, M.D. In the Fall of 1862, he
returned to Hanover, and began a course of lectures at Dartmouth Medical College, but
only remained a few weeks, when he left and enlisted in the Eleventh Regiment, New
Hampshire Volunteers, on October 26, 1862. He was immediately detailed for duty in
the Hospital Department of the regiment, and served as nurse, steward's assistant, and
Acting Hospital Steward in charge of the brigade hospital stores, until he was taken sick
in Mississippi, during the siege of Vicksburg, in the Summer of 1863. He was taken to
the Main Street, United States General Hospital, at Covington, Kentucky, where he was
very sick for many weeks. After his convalescence, he was employed in the hospital, in
charge of the drug store, until July, 1864, when, after a successful examination before a
board of United States Army Surgeons, he was appointed a Medical Cadet in the United
States Army, ranking with the Cadets at West Point. He remained stationed at the
hospital in Covington, Kentucky, and at the same time attended lectures at the Medical
College of Ohio, in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he graduated in March, 1865. He was
appointed by Governor Brough, of Ohio, to the position of Assistant Surgeon of the
Eighteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, on May 2, 1865, and served with the regiment in
Tennessee and Georgia, until he was mustered out of the Service on October 9, 1865. He
was then appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon, United States Army, and served with the
regular troops in Georgia until June 15, 1866, when he resigned, owing to ill health, and
returned to his home in New Hampshire. He soon located for the practice of medicine
in Rochester, New Hampshire, where he remained until July, 1869, when he removed to
Farmington, New Hampshire, where, in addition to the practice of medicine, he opened
a drug store. In October, 1876, he was appointed postmaster of the town, which
position he held until March, 1881, when, on account of continual and increasing ill health, he
was obliged to give up both his position and business. During his residence in
Farmington, he was twice the candidate of his party for member of the State Legislature,
but the contest was so close, that neither party could elect either of those two years.
With the hope of improving his health by a radical change of climate and mode of
living, he started for the West in April, 1881, and located at St. Joe, Hamilton County,
Nebraska, where he is located at the present time, owning and managing a farm of
two hundred and forty acres of fine land. He also has, in addition, a small practice of
medicine.
His religious preferences are for the Baptist faith. In politics, he is a Republican.
He was married December 24, 1868, to Miss Jennie S. Hayes, of Rochester, New
Hampshire. She died of consumption, September 29, 1869.
He was married, second, January 11, 1872, to Miss Mary A. Chamberlin, of New
Durham, New Hampshire. They have had three children: George Chamberlin, born
September 23, 1874; Aggie May, born September 23, 1878, and Arthur Garfield, born
April 25, 1882.
George Chamberlin died December 16, 1879.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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