Chamberlain studied for three additional years at Bangor Theological Seminary in Bangor, Maine, returned to Bowdoin, and began a career in education as a professor of rhetoric. Adams's father did not at first approve of the marriage, but later approved and shared a mutual respect with his son-in-law. He married Fanny Adams, adopted daughter of a local clergyman, in 1855, and they had five children, one of whom was born too prematurely to survive and two of whom died in infancy. A member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society and a brother of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, Chamberlain graduated in 1852. He also joined the Peucinian Society, a group of students with Federalist leanings. Chamberlain would often go to listen to her read passages from what would later become her celebrated novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. While at Bowdoin he met many people who would influence his life, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, the wife of a Bowdoin professor. He entered Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, after teaching himself to read Ancient Greek in order to pass the entrance exam. Joshua Chamberlain was born in Brewer, Maine, to Joshua and Sarah Dupee Chamberlain, the oldest of five children.
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