![]() ![]() Chambers was first educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and then entered the Art Students' League at around the age of twenty, where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was a fellow student. His brother was the architect Walter Boughton Chambers. Allen (1793–1880), a direct descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of Providence, Rhode Island, were among the first settlers of Broadalbin, New York. Upon graduating, he and his wife, Eliza P. The second William graduated from Union College at the age of 18, and then went to a college in Boston, where he studied medicine. The couple moved from Westerly to Greenfield, Massachusetts and then to Galway, New York, where their son, also William Chambers (1798–1874), was born. Robert Chambers's great-grandfather, William Chambers (birth unknown), a lieutenant in the British Royal Navy, was married to Amelia Saunders (1765–1822), a great granddaughter of Tobias Saunders of Westerly, Rhode Island. ![]() Eventually the two formed the law firm of Chambers and Boughton which continued to prosper even after Joseph's death in 1861. was interning with her father, Joseph Boughton, a prominent corporate lawyer. His parents met when his mother was twelve years old and William P. Chambers (1827–1911), a corporate and bankruptcy lawyer, and Caroline Smith Boughton (1842–1913). ![]() ![]() Life Chambers was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Robert William Chambers (– December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories titled The King in Yellow, published in 1895. ![]()
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