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Rh Frederieton, N. B., 6 Feb., 1880. He was a grand- son of Joshua Chandler, of New Haven, Conn., a well-known loyalist, who went to Nova Scotia in 1788 and thence to England to obtain com- pensation for losses sustained during the Ameri- can, revolution. He studied law and was admitted to the bar of New Brunswick in October, 1823, was judge of probates for Westmoreland co., N. B., from 1823 till 1862, a member of the executive council from 1844 till 1858, and from 1867 till 1869, when he resigned to take the office of inter- colonial railway commissioner. He has been a dele- gate on various important missions to London, Washington, and elsewhere, and in July, 1878, was appointed lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, which office he held till his death.

CHANDLER, Elizabeth Margaret, author, b. in Centre, near Wilmington, Del., 24 Dec, 1807 ; d. 22 Nov., 1834. She was the daughter of Thomas Chandler, a Quaker farmer, was educated at the Friends' school in Philadelphia, and began at an early age to write verses. Her poem " The Slave- Ship," written when she was eighteen years old, gained the prize oifered by the '• Casket," a month- ly magazine. She became a contributor to the " Genius of Universal Emancipation," a Philadel- phia periodical favoring the liberation of the slaves, and in it nearly all her subsequent writings ap- peared. In 1830, with her aunt and brother, she removed to a farm near Tecumseh, Lenawee co., Mich., and from there continued her contributions in prose and verse on the subject of slavery. A collection of her poems and essays was edited, with a memoir, by Benjamin Lundy (Philadelphia, 1836). CHANDLER, John, senator, b. in Epping, N. H., in 1760 : d. in Augusta, Me., 25 Sept., 1841. He was a blacksmith, and Anally became wealthy ; svas a counsellor and senator from 1803 till 1805, and a member of congress from 1805 till 1808. At the beginning of the war with Great Britain in 1812 he was commissioned brigadier-general, 8 July, and was wounded and made a prisoner at the battle Lf Stoney Creek, Upper Canada. From 1820 till 1829 he was U. S. senator from Maine. He was col- lector of Portland from 1829 till 1837, trustee of Bowdoin college, and sheriff of Kennebec co.

CHANDLER, Joseph Ripley, journalist, b. in Kingston, Mass., 25 Aug., 1792 ; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 10 July, 1880. After receiving a common- school educa- tion, he became clerk in a store in Boston, but continued to read and study, and soon be- gan to teach. About 1815 he married and moved to Phil- adelphia,where for some years he and his wife kept a success- ful school. He became con- nected with the " United States Gazette," then in a moribund condition, in 1822, and in 1826, having given it renewed life, he gave up his school. The " Gazette " became prominent as a whig journal and an advocate of national and local progress. Mr. Chandler's connection with it ceased, owing to his health, in 1847, when it was merged in the " North American." He was a member of the Philadelphia city council from 1832 till 1848, and in 1836 was a delegate to the State constitutional convention. He was elected to congress as a whig in 1848, and served three terms, from 1849 till 1855. Much of his time between 1855 and 1858 was spent abroad, and in the latter year President Buchanan appointed him minister to the Two Sicilies. He was in Naples at the time of the ex- pulsion of the Bourbons, and returned in Novem- ber, 1860, to Philadelphia. He took much interest in prison reform, was one of the inspectors of prisons, and a prominent member of the Philadel- phia society for the relief of public prisons. He published a " Grammar of the English Language " (Philadelphia, 1821), and many essays, addresses, and pamphlets on prison discipline and other sub- jects of general interest.

CHANDLER, Ralph, naval officer, b. in New York, 23 Aug., 1829 ; d. in Hong Kong. (Iiina, 11 Feb., 1889. He was appointed midshipman, 27 Sept., 1845, served on the west coast of iNlexico during the JMexican war, and was engaged in skir- mishes. He became passed midshipman, 6 Oct., 1851, master in 1855, and was commissioned as lieutenant on 16 Sept. of that year. He was on the "Vandalia" at the battle of Port Royal, 7 Nov., 1861, and in 1862 was assigned to the " San Jacinto," of the North Atlantic blockading squad- ron, on which he was present at the capture of Norfolk. He was promoted to lieutenant-command- er, 16 July, 1862, commanded the "Maumee" at both attacks on Fort Fisher, and was made com- mander, 25 July, 1866. He became captain, 5 June, 1874, and commodore, 1 March, 1884, and in tlie same year was appointed commandant of the Brooklyn navy-yard. He was promoted to rear- admiral on 6 Oct., 1886, succeeded in command of the navy-yard by Commodore Gherardi on 15 Oct., and was ordered to relieve Rear- Admiral Davis in command of the Asiatic squadron. — His daughter Bessie (Mrs. Leroy Parker) has contributed nu- merous poems to the " Century," " St. Nicholas," and other periodicals.

CHANDLER, Samuel, soldier, b. in Lexington, Mass., in 1794 ; d. there, 20 July, 1867. He became third lieutenant in the 9th Massachusetts infantry, 11 May, 1814, and went into service on the Cana- dian frontier, taking part in the battle of Lundy's Lane, and in other engagements during the war with Great Britain. He was made second lieuten- ant in September, 1814, and discharged in June, 1815. He then went into trade in his native town, and thenceforward took an active part in town and county affairs. After being a member of both branches of the legislature, he was, in 1840, elected sheriff of Middlesex, and held that office until 1855. He was also major-general of the state militia for many years, but lived in retirement on his farm during the latter part of his life.

CHANDLER, Thomas Bradbury, clergyman, b. in Woodstock, Conn., 26 April, 1726 ; d. in Elizabethtown, N. J., 17 June, 1790. He was graduated at Yale in 1745, taught school while studying for the ministry, and was appointed catechist and lay-reader at Elizabethtown, N. J., by the Society for propagating the gospel in foreign parts. He went to England in 1751, was admitted to orders by the bishop of London, and returned the same year. His missionary labors in Elizabethtown and vicinity were unceasing. As he was on principle a lover and admirer of the orderly ways of the church of England, he refused his pulpit to