ROBERT C. CHAMBERS.  Now serving in the office of county attorney of Jones county, Mr. Chambers is a lawyer and a young citizen of varied experience in both his profession and in public affairs. He belongs to the type of self-made mean, since during his earlier years he worked as a teacher and in other occupations, and invested the proceeds in a training for professional life. Mr. Chambers represents one of the oldest families of Texas, and his grandfather, Ed Chambers, was a member of the Constitutional Convention which formulated the first organic law for the state at the close of the Republic, and served as a member of the famous Thirteen Legislature of the state.
   Robert C. Chambers was born in Collin county, Texas, June 15, 1876, the third in a family of seven children. His father, Zachary T. Chambers, a native of Tennessee, was a boy when his father came across country by wagon and team to Texas. Farming has been his occupation throughout his active career, and he still resides in Collin county, one of the prosperous and influential men of that locality. With the majority party of the state he has taken much part, and during the closing years of the Civil war served as a soldier in a Texas regiment. He is prominent in the orders of Masonry and Odd Fellowship. Both he and his wife, Mrs. Julia H. Chambers, also a native of Tennessee, are very active members in the Baptist church.
   Robert C. Chambers, whose entire career has been spent in Texas, had his early education in public schools in Collin county, and followed this up with a course at Henry College, then at Baylor University, and finally at the State University at Austin where he was graduated from the law department with his legal degree in 1905. Leaving Henry College he had returned to the farm, and qualified himself and took up the work of teaching. Between sessions he worked at farming and other vocations, and in this way paid his way through Baylor College and through the State University. The two years following his graduation in the law department also contained experience very valuable to him in his subsequent career. He held a position in the office of the State Comptroller, and at the same time acted as private secretary to Thomas B. Love, then speaker of the House of Representatives, and also in the same capacity for A. M. Kennedy, who was then a member of the Legislature from McLennan county, and who at one time had been speaker of the house. From Austin, Mr. Chambers moved out to Jones county, locating at Anson, where he established himself in the practice of law. He has more than held his own as a lawyer, and is regarded as one of the ablest of the local bar. In November, 1910, he was elected to the office of county attorney, and is now serving his second term.
   On Christmas Day of 1897 Mr. Chambers was married at Greenville, Texas, to Miss Nevada Virginia Horn, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Horn of Greenville. Their two children, both daughters, were Geraldine, now deceased, and Ted, in school. Mr. Chambers accepts the teachings of the Baptist church as his religious faith, and is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. As a Democrat he has done much for his party in the different localities of his residence. Outside of his profession he enjoys practically all the athletic sports, and is particularly fond of tennis, baseball, and football.

from A History of Texas and Texans, by Frank W. Johnson.  The American Historical Society.  Chicago, 1914.  Vol. III, p. 1092.