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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II.
pg. 356.
CHESTER CUSH CHAMBERS
Chester Cush Chambers, the efficient and popular city attorney
of Logan judicial center of Logan County, was born at Pecks
Mills, this county, Decmeber 11, 1890, and is the son of Leroy
and Martha (Chambers) Chambers, both natives of this state,
where they still reside on their excellent homestead farm near
Pecks Mill. The father of Leroy Chambers was born in Virginia,
where the family, of English lineage, was founded in the
Colonial
days, and he became one of the distinguished and eloquent
clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as a minister of
which he labored long and earnestly and gained high reputation
for his consecrated zeal and devotion.
After receiving the discipline of the public schools Chester C.
Chambers was for three years a student in Marshall College at
Huntington, this state. In 1915 he graduated in the law
department of historic old Washington and Lee University,
Virginia, and after thus receiving his degree of Bachelor of
Laws he engaged in the practice of his profession at Logan,
where his success marks him as one of the representative younger
meembers of the bar of Logan County. He served one term as
county recorder, and the year 1922 finds him giving an
effective administration in the office of city attorney of
Logan.
On the 6th of March, 1918, Mr. Chambers entered the nation's
military service in connection with the World war. He passed
one year at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, and for ten months
thereafter he was stationed at Fort Bayard, New Mexico. He
won commission as second lieutenant, was assigned to the
sanitary corps, and at Fort Bayard he was made adjutant of the
United States General Hospital, commanding officer of the
hospital force of 600 men, custodian of the hospital funds and
fire marshal of the Post. The preferments denote the high
estimate placed upon him and also the effieciency of his
service. He received his honorable discharge in August, 1919,
and then resumed the practice of his profession at Logan. He
is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks.
In March, 1918, Mr. Chambers was united in marriage with Miss
Ida Robinette, of Logan County, she being a daughter of
Preston and Ella (Gore) Robinette, the former a native of
Kentucky and the latter of the present Logan County, West
Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Chambers are popular figures in the
representative social activities of their home community.
Submitted by Vivian Brinker April 27, 2000
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