The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Chamberlain, Nathan Henry

CHAMBERLAIN, Nathan Henry, American clergyman: b. Bourne, Mass., 25 Dec. 1830; d. there, 1 April 1901. He graduated at Harvard, 1853, and studied theology at the divinity school there, and at Heidelberg, Germany, eventually becoming a Unitarian minister. He was pastor at Canton, Mass., 1857-59, and at Baltimore, Md., 1860-63. He then took orders in the Episcopal Church, and became rector at Birmingham, Conn., 1864-'7; Morrisania, N. Y., 1868-71; Milwaukee, Wis., 1871-'73; Somerville, Mass., 1874-79; East Boston, Mass., 1882-89. He then retired to devote himself to literary pursuits. His books are ‘Autobiography of a New England Parish’ (1864); ‘The Sphinx in Aubrey Parish’ (1889); ‘What is the Matter with our Tariff and its Taxes’ (1890); ‘Samuel Sewall and the World He Lived In’ (1897), an admirable study of colonial life in New England; ‘Life of Sir Charles Napier’; ‘An Itinerary of Cape Cod.’