Reverend Dr. Chamberlain graduated as Valedictorian at both Phillips Academy and Yale. He served in the Navy, ending as Judge Advocate of the fleet. After graduating from Andover Theological Seminary in 1869, he began as pastor in Chicago, followed by Norwich, Conn., next earning his Doctor of Divinity degree from the U. of Vt.in 1879. In 1883 he became pastor of the Casson Ave. Presbyt. Church in Brooklyn, NY where he preached until the day of his marriage to Frances Lea, on Dec. 30, 1890. when he left for Philadelphia. He preached throughout the nation, serving in numerous capacities in NYC. He founded the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences, and was Pres. of the US Evangelical Alliance, and served as Sec. of the American and Foreign Missionary Union, and was VP of he Immigration Committee of the Civic Fed. in 1909 and spoke in opposition to further restrictions on immigration, stating that the laws at the time were sufficient to protect the country from undesirable foreigners. He was residing in Altadena, Calif. when he died. He was returned to Philadelphia to be buried beside his wife on 19 May, 1913. He left $63,000 to religious, benevolent and scientific organizations, and $100,000 to an institute in Turkey which he had projected and fostered.

The following is from his obituary presented to Yale University alumni:

LEANDER TROWBRIDGE CHAMBERLAIN, seventh son andyoungest of the children of Eli and Achsah (Forbes) Chamberlain, was born September 26, 1837, at West Brookfield, Mass. He earned his own way through Phillips
Academy, Andover, Mass , where he stood at the head of his class.

While in college, though self-supporting, he won declamation and debating prizes, was one of the cochlaureati, was a member of the Glee Club, received the DeForest Gold Medal, and was Valedictorian of his class [Yale University, Class of 1863].

Through his friendship with Admiral Andrew H Foote, shortly before graduation he was appointed assistant paymaster in the United States Navy, and immediately after Commencement was assigned to the Fredoma, then at Callao, on the Peruvian coast, as acting assistant paymaster. Later he was made naval storekeeper and judge advocate of the Pacific squadron. At the end of two years he had saved enough money to pay all his indebtedness for his education and to begin his professional studies, but the one trusted to exchange the gold coin in New
York spent it all, so that Mr Chamberlain found it necessary to continue in naval service a year and a half longer.

In the spring of 1867 he began the study of Hebrew, and with the help of a month's instruction from his classmate, Professor William G Sumner, who had just returned from Gottingen and Oxford, and two months' further
study, he was able to enter the Middle year in AndoverTheological Seminary. On his graduation in 1869 he began his pastorate of the New England Congregational Church in Chicago, and was ordained October 27. In 1871 the great fire destroyed the church building, chapel,
mission chapel, and every home of the congregation. During the following winter he was superintendent of relief for the burned district. After remaining with the church until it was fairly reestablished, he became pastor of the Broadway Congregational Church in Norwich, Conn, in
1876. While there, in 1879, he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Vermont. After seven years in Norwich he accepted a call to the Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church Brooklyn, N Y.

He was a corporate member of the American Board ofCommissioners for Foreign Missions, the first secretary in the United States of the McAll Mission in France, and one of the organizers of the American McAll Association. In 1880 he was a delegate to the centennial of Sunday
Schools in London, and in 1888 was a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian Council in London.

At the end of seven years of service in Brooklyn, he resigned his pastorate and afterward, residing in New York City, gave his time to various causes.
He was president of the Evangelical Alliance of the United States and was a delegate from this country to a general conference of Evangelical Alliances in Florence in 1891. He was secretary and treasurer of the American and ForeignChristian Union, president of the Philafncan League,
president of the Thessalonica Agricultural and IndustrialInstitute in Macedonia, a director of the New York Federation of Churches, and member of the executive committee of the New York Civil Service Reform Association He was also an officer or member of many other organizations and societies.

In 1896 he aided in organizing and carrying through the Washington Arbitration Conference, which considered the adoption of a system of arbitration between this country and Great Britain. In 1899 he
organized and was a director of the National Armenia movement in aid of
the famine sufferers m India and India Relief Association.

He was the author of many volumes, including a "History of the Bible," 1881; "A Citizen's Manual," 1896; "The State," 1898; "The Colonial Policy of the United States," 1899; "Patriotism and the Moral Law," 1900; "The Evolutionary Philosophy," 1902; "Government not Founded in Force," and "The Suffrage and Majority Rule," 1904.

Dr Chamberlain died at Pasadena, Cal, May 9, 1913, in the 76th year of his age. His funeral was at the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City, and burial in Philadelphia.

He married, December 30, 1890, Frances, only daughter of Isaac Lea, LLD., and Frances (Carey) Lea of Philadelphia. She died in 1894, and in her honor and that of her father he gathered an extensive and typical collection of gems for the National Museum in Washington, and a collection of over fifty thousand specimens of American Eocene fossil shells for the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.

One of his brothers, Governor Daniel H Chamberlain, graduated from Yale College in 1862, and another brother, Joshua M , for thirty-five years an official of Iowa (now Grinnell) College, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1855.

SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.