CHAMBERS, DAVID LAURANCE: 1879-
David Laurance Chambers , son of David Abbot and Elizabeth Keyser Fracker Chambers, was born in Washington, D. C., on Jan. 12, 1879. Following his graduation from the Columbian Preparatory School in 1895, he entered Princeton University, receiving the A.B. degree in 1900 and the A.M. in 1901. In 1937 he was granted a Litt.D. degree by Wabash College. He married Nora Taggart on Apr. 29, 1910.
After serving as secretary to Dr. Henry van Dyke (1900-03) and as a member of the editorial staff of the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia (1903), in 1903 he joined the Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Company of Indianapolis, becoming a member of the firm in 1907 and later its president.
Information from Who's Who in America.
page: 57[View Page 57]- The Metre of Macbeth, Its Relation to Shakespeare's
Earlier and Later Work. Princeton, N. J., 1903.
- Indiana, a Hoosier History.
Indianapolis, 1933.
