Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence

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Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence (1828-1914), served as a Union Army officer during the American Civil War (1861-1865). He was also an educator and a governor of Maine. Chamberlain was born on Sept. 8, 1828, in Brewer, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1852 and from Bangor Theological Seminary in 1855. He then began teaching at Bowdoin.

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