Chauncey Jerome ('Chan') Hamlin

Chauncey Jerome ('Chan') Hamlin
Born	1881
Died	1963
Residence	Buffalo Museum of Science, Humboldt Park, Buffalo 11, New York, USA [1949]
Occupation	museum work political
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1957.11.07 resigned elected_AI 1938.11.22 societies American Association of Museums International Council of Museums

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Chauncey Jerome Hamlin (1881-1963): the son of Harry Hamlin (1855-1907), killed in one of Buffalo's earliest automobile accidents) and the grandson of Cicero J. Hamlin, Chauncey or "Chan" Hamlin lived with his wife Emily Gray Hamlin for a time in the family mansion on 1014 Delaware Avenue, but had it torn down in 1926. Chauncey Hamlin was a lawyer, a supporter of Theodore Roosevelt, and deeply involved in Buffalo civic affairs helping to establish the Buffalo Commission Charter ands the Buffalo Legal Aid Bureau.

After returning from W.W.I, Chauncey became involved in the Buffalo Museum of Science, promoting a new building in Humboldt Park. At his death in 1863, an obituary published in the Museum's newsletter states, "... our present Buffalo Museum of Science...can truly be said to be the creation of, and a monument to, Mr. Hamlin." Hamlin was also a president of the American Association of Museums and created the International Council of Museums.

Named one of the past century’s most influential Western New Yorkers, Chauncey Hamlin was a politician, a conservationist and a key figure in the development of the Buffalo Museum of Science and the field of museology nationwide.

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