The Gay Rebellion
By Robert W. Chambers
A whirlwind of fun. It’s a satire without a sting. A gay, bubbling, effervescent romance on the topic of the hour. It is a distinctly human love story that only Mr. Chambers can write.
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Robert W. Chambers
Chambers was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers (1827–1911), a corporate and bankruptcy lawyer, and Caroline Smith Boughton (1842–1913).
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His parents met when his mother was twelve, and William P. was interning with her father, Joseph Boughton, a prominent corporate lawyer. Eventually, the two formed the law firm Chambers and Boughton, which continued to prosper after Joseph died in 1861. 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.
The couple moved from Westerly to Greenfield, Massachusetts, and then to Galway, New York, where their son, William Chambers (1798–1874), was born. The second William graduated from Union College at 18 and then went to a college in Boston, where he studied medicine. Upon graduating, he and his wife, Eliza P. Allen (1793–1880), a direct descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of Providence, Rhode Island, were among the first settlers of Broadalbin, New York. His brother was the architect Walter Boughton Chambers.
Robert W. Chambers
