Samuel Selwyn Chamberlain (1851 - 1916)

Born 25 Sep 1851 in Walworth, Wayne, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Taylor (Munson) Chamberlain — married 15 Oct 1873 in Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey, United States

Died 25 Jan 1916 at age 64 in San Francisco, California, United States

Biography

Samuel was born in 1851. He was the son of Ivory Chamberlain and Mary Ingalls. He passed away in 1916.

Noted journalist and newspaper editor. Later in career was employed by William Randolph Hearst.

He "was principal of Walworth Acad., Gilbertville Collegiate Inst.; political editor of the New York World and Herald.^[1]

"His first newspaper work was done on the old New York World, before the days of Pulitzer. He worked In New Jersey and then became private secretary for James Gordon Bennett, traveling over the world with that publisher. He founded the parls Matin and the Morning News, the latter in the English language. This was while still In the service of Bennett."^[2]

"Le Matin was a French daily newspaper founded in 1884 and published until 1944. Le Matin was launched on the initiative of Chamberlain & Co., a group of American financiers and the American newspaper editor Samuel Selwyn Chamberlain, in 1883, on the model of the British daily The Morning News."^[3]

"He returned to America and was brought by Mr. Hearst to San Francisco In 1889. Then began the period of constructive work that has since made his name famous in journalism. With the exception of one year, when he went to Wanamaker’s Philadelphia North American, his service has been given to the Hearst newspapers. He was essentially a 'builder of newspapers.'"^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Burleigh: Page 91
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} LA Herald obituary
3. ↑ "Le Matin," The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia

• Samuel Selwyn Chamberlain on Wikipedia
• Burleigh, Charles. The Genealogy and History of the Ingalls Family in America (Geo. E. Dunbar, Malden, Mass., 1903). Page 91.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M86S-15D : 29 May 2021), Samuel Chamberlin in entry for Ivory Chamberlin, 1870.
• "New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZL5-1BH : 20 January 2020), ...c.l. Chamberlain, 1873.
• Apparently counted twice in 1880 census:
  • "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN8Z-QJ8 : 19 February 2021), Saml Chamberlain, Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey, United States; citing enumeration district ED 34, sheet 498B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,784.
  • "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ65-NPG : 19 February 2021), Samul Chamberlain in household of Ivory Chamberlain, New York, New York, New York, United States; citing enumeration district ED 471, sheet 585C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,889.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3WQ-8VD : accessed 18 September 2021), Saml Chamberland, Philadelphia city Ward 22, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 503, sheet 10A, family 163, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,464.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVG8-TPH : accessed 18 September 2021), Samuel S Chamberlain, San Francisco Assembly District 41, San Francisco, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 265, sheet 6B, family 162, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 101; FHL microfilm 1,374,114.
• "Famous editor, Chamberlain, dies of heart disease" (obituary), Los Angeles Herald, Volume XLII, Number 73, 25 January 1916
• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 18 September 2021), memorial page for Samuel Selwyn Chamberlain (25 Sep 1850–25 Jan 1916), Find A Grave: Memorial #20448683, citing Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, Westchester County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Pat (contributor 46871295). (includes photo of gravestone)