success. He was instrumental in inducing the board to locate the State fair permanently at Columbus, and to purchase and equip the new grounds, the finest State fair grounds and the best equipped in the country. In all this varied work his zeal was fervent, his energy tireless, and his achievements remarkable. Mr. Chamberlain's work as secretary, and his contributions to the agricultural press, brought him into prominent notice throughout the country, and as a consequence, in 1884, he was offered the presidency of the Iowa Agricultural College, but declined it, as he felt it his duty to finish the work already begun, of establishing the fair in its new grounds. In 1887 the offer of the presidency was repeated, and this time it was accepted. The same year Rutger's College, New Jersey, one of the oldest in the land, conferred on him the degree of LL. D., and in 1890 the same degree was again conferred by the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. For three years now he has successfully labored in this new field. The Legislature last winter appropriated $55,000 for new buildings, the largest sum for eighteen years. The number of students enrolled in 1890 is the largest in the history of the college, and when the new buildings are completed it will be still larger because of increased room. A building for Y. M. C. A. and literary society rooms is one of Dr. Chamberlain's projects, to cost some $25,000, to be built by subscriptions from professors, alumni students and friends of the college, and to be called " The Welch Memorial Hall," in honor of Dr. A. S. Welch, deceased, the first president of the college. Dr. Chamberlain says the building is practically assured, which means that he will push the matter to its conclusion. The college under his quiet and patient leadership is clearly entering upon an era of harmony and enlarged prosperity.
H. Dewey Chamberlin, M. D. Among the citizens of Story, as well as surrounding counties, the name of Dr. Chamberlin is becoming quite familiar, for since he has been a practitioner of the "healing art" in this section he has won an enviable reputation. He was born in the Green Mountain State " April 7, 1848, and is the eldest living of five children, four of whom survive, born to the marriage of John A. Chamberlin and Celinda Dewey, who were also born in Vermont June 20, 1818, and November 4, 1817, respectively, and are now residing on the old homestead in Vermont, on which the father was born. The grandfather, John Chamberlin, was born in Chelmsford, Mass., April 20, 1784, and died December 11, 1874, having been a soldier in the War of 1812. Dr. Chamberlin, the immediate subject of this sketch, acquired the rudiments of his education in the schools of Vermont, but in January, 1868, he entered Oberlin (Ohio) College, from which institution he graduated August 7, 1872, and the following year was principal of the public schools of Chazy, N. Y. In 1873 he returned to Ohio and began the study of medicine in the office of Drs. Bricker & Huss, at Shelby, but spent the following winters as a student in the medical department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, graduating March 29, 1876. He located soon after in Toledo, Ohio, and there made his home for ten years, being elected in 1878 as coroner of Lucas County, filling the position four years by re-election. On March 29, 1886, he came to Nevada, Iowa, and has here built up an excellent practice; is the present coroner of the county, and is president of the Story County Medical Society; a member of the Insane Commission, and also a member of the Pension Board. He belongs to the K. of P., Samson Lodge No. 77, of which he is past chancellor, and in his political views he always