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Chambers (WILLIAM a Scotch prosewriter)

WILLIAM, a Scotch prosewriter and editor, brother and partner of Robert, born in Peebles, April 16, 1800. He wrote "Things as They Are in America" (1854); "American Slavery and Color" (1857); "France, its History and Revolutions" (1871); "Stories of Old Families and Remarkable Persons" (1878). He also compiled a "Hand Book of American Literature" (1857). He died in Edinburgh, May 20, 1883.