Alexander Chambers, son of Alex, and Sarah (McDougall) Chambers, born August 23, 1832, in Ellicottsville, N.Y. He was Colonel of 16th Iowa Infantry and was appointed Brigadier General of United States Volunteers. In 1873, he was a Major in the United States Army, and stationed at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming Territory. He resigned in 1887, Owatonna, Minnesota. He was married by Mr. Gilford at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, December 25, 1862 to Hannah Frances Winslow, daughter of Henry Petre & Catherine (Sawyer) Winslow, who was born on March 29, 1839 in Augusta, Maine.
SOURCE: Abstracted from David Parsons Holton & Mrs. Frances (Forward) Holton, Winslow Memorial: Family Records Of The Winslows And Their Descendants In America With English Ancestry As Far Known: Kinelm1 Winslow, Volume 2, p. 955-6
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