Olin Burnham Chamberlain was born in Charleston, South Carolina on June 25, 1892 to Norman A. and Julia Davis Chamberlain. He graduated from the Charleston High School in 1910 and from the College of Charleston in 1914. The following fall he enrolled in the Medical College of South Carolina from which he graduated in 1918 as the first honor graduate. After an internship at the Philadelphia General Hospital, Chamberlain returned to Charleston to accept the position of chief of the intern staff at Roper Hospital. Chamberlain specialized in psychiatry, obtaining additional training in London and at Harvard University. He later returned to Charleston where he advanced to the rank of Associate Professor at the Medical College. During World War II, Dr. Chamberlain served as a major in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He was stationed at Lagarde General Hospital in New Orleans where he served as Assistant Chief of Neuropsychiatry. He was promoted to colonel and served out the rest of the war as Chief of Neuropsychiatry at Bushnell Hospital in Brigham City, Iowa. In 1946 Chamberlain returned to Charleston where he was made full professor of neuropsychiatry and chair of this newly established department. In 1947 he was named the first director of the Mental Hygiene Clinic of Charleston and was elected to the board of the State Hospital in Columbia. He was a founding member of the Charleston County Medical Society. He died on June 30, 1968 in Charleston.
From the description of Olin B. Chamberlain Papers 1918-1941 (Medical University of South Carolina Library). WorldCat record id: 639924326
