Jeremiah Chamberlain

Jeremiah Chamberlain
Born	January 5, 1794 Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania
Died	September 5, 1851 Lorman, Jefferson County, Mississippi
Education	Dickinson College Princeton Theological Seminary
Occupation	Preacher, educator
Spouse(s)	Rebecca (Blain) Chamberlain
Children	Susan Ann Chamberlain Sarah Matilda Chamberlain Isabella (Chamberlain) Hyland Rebecca Clarissa (Chamberlain) Sleeper
Relatives	William S. Hyland (son-in-law) Fabius H. Sleeper (son-in-law)

Jeremiah Chamberlain (1794-1851) was an American Presbyterian minister, educator and college administrator. Educated at Dickinson College and Princeton Theological Seminary, he served as the president of Centre College in Kentucky from 1822 to 1825.

He was founding president of the Presbyterian-affiliated Oakland College in Claiborne County, Mississippi, serving from 1830 to his death in 1851. Known to favor abolition of slavery, he was a co-founder with major planters of the Mississippi Colonization Society. Affiliated with the American Colonization Society, it was formed to relocate free people of color from the state to West Africa, in the colony that developed as Liberia.

In 1850 Chamberlain still owned three slaves. The following year he was murdered during an argument with a pro-slavery planter.

Jeremiah Chamberlain was born on January 5, 1794 in Pennsylvania. His father, James Chamberlain, had served as a colonel in the American Revolutionary War of 1775-1783. He grew up on a farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He was educated in York County and graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1814.

Chamberlain was a member of the first graduating class of Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey in 1817. He returned to Pennsylvania, where he joined the Carlisle Presbyterian Ministry.

Chamberlain served as a Presbyterian missionary in the Southwest in 1817. The following year, he began serving as a Presbyterian minister in Bedford, Pennsylvania.

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