Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 1828-1914

found : NUCMC data from Me. Hist. Soc. for Perham, A.S. Papers, 1865-1928 (Joshua L. Chamberlain, governor of Me.)

found : WwWA, v. 1, 1897-1942 (Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence; soldier, governor of Me., 1867-1871; married Frances C. Adams; comdr., 1st Div., Congressional medal of honor for holding position at Little Round Top during Battle of Gettysburg; college prof., Bowdoin Coll.; res.: Brunswick, Me.)

found : Passing through fire, 2021: CIP galley (born Lawrence Joshua Chamberlain to Joshua and Sarah Dupee (Brastow) Chamberlain on September 8, 1828; Always called “Lawrence” by his relatives, the eldest Chamberlain sibling switched his first and middle names after moving to Brunswick; Sent at age 14 to a military academy operated by Lt. Charles Jarvis Whiting at “The Crags” on the Bangor Road in North Ellsworth; Chamberlain taught himself Greek, a requisite language for incoming freshmen at Bowdoin College in Brunswick; After graduating in 1852, he spent three years studying theology at Bangor Theological Seminary “and received a license to preach,” but the ministry held little appeal; Bowdoin hired him as an instructor in mid-decade, and he left Brewer permanently for Brunswick; died in Portland on February 24, 1914)