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Excerpt from Report of Annual Meetings Held in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1908, 1909 and 1910: With Memorial Sketches of Members of the Association The scene of the annual gathering of 1908, the eleventh, was again the Parker House, Boston. The Executive Committee met at ten o'clock. At noon the President of the Association, General Joshua L. Chamberlain, held a reception; and later the company adjourned to the Crystal Dining Room for luncheon. After the good things provided by mine host had been discussed and secluded, the President introduced Rev. E. E. Strong, D. D., who spoke briefly of the life-work of Rev. Dr. Jacob Chamberlain, physician, explorer, scholar, and preacher. Jacob Chamberlain went in 1859, to India, where he labored as a missionary for nearly fifty years. Being able to speak in several of the native dialects, he was equipped for work of wide extent, which included a revision of the Bible in the Telugu language. He was the father of Jacob Chester Chamberlain, who died some two years ago. At the conclusion of Dr. Strong's address, the President spoke of the absence from the meeting of General Samuel E. Chamberlain, who is ill at his home in Barre. This is the first annual meeting of the Association from which he has been absent. On motion, a telegram of sympathy was sent to him. Following this came an interesting speech by Mr. J. H. Walling, whose mother was a Chamberlain. He has but recently joined the Association, but evinced all the enthusiasm of a veteran. He read a paper prepared by his father, which gave a sketch of the life of his grandfather Chamberlain. Eugene Chamberlin of New York, began a picturesque and eloquent address with the dictum: As by the grace of Providence we meet again, each one present should offer something in honor of the name we bear. He was proud of his name and of his descent, for it was becoming more and more of an honor to trace descent from a grandfather who was born in this country. In the great city of New York with its millions of people, there were barely eighty thousand whose fathers were natives of this land. One of his ancestors, John by name, was scourged nine times because he would not forego his faith, and another, William of Connecticut, proved his virility by raising so many children they were never counted. The speaker's great grandfather was one of the party who helped Washington cross the Delaware. His father served through the Civil War in the 25th Ohio. He finished his address with an eloquent tribute to the strong sterling qualities of the men who had borne the name of Chamberlain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.