F. C. Chambers
F. C. Chambers, secretary of the Steubenville Coal & Mining Company, has spent the larger part of his life in this city and has many business and other interests here. He was born in Cross Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1861, and is a son of Thomas Chambers, who was born in northern Ohio but later became a farmer in Cross Creek Township and subsequently a merchant at Steubenville, where he died, April 18, 1909, in his eighty-eighth year.
F. C. Chambers was reared and educated mainly at Steubenville and later was associated with his father in the mercantile business. For the past twenty-two years he has been identified with the Steubenville Coal & Mining Company, of which he is now one of the officials. He is a director in the National Exchange Bank and also a director of the Steubenville Coal & Mining Company and owns stock in other enterprises. He has been a dependable citizen at all times, has served on the board of education and is a member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce.
In 1884 Mr. Chambers was married to Miss Georgia Gertrude Peters, who was born and reared at Steubenville. Her father was William Raney Peters. Mr. and Mrs. Chambers have two sons and two daughters: Charles F., who is power man of the United Gas & Improvement Company, of Philadelphia; George P., who is chemist for the United Gas & Improvement Company of Philadelphia, Pa.; Mary S., who is a student in the Steubenville High School; and Margaret, who also attends school. Mr. and Mrs. Chambers are members of the First Methodist Protestant Church, of which he is a trustee and secretary of the board of stewards. He is identified with the Masonic fraternity.
20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910