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 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY 1059 delegate a1 large to the Republican National Convention. Mr. Chandler was a fine type of pioneer, stanch of character, un- swerving of principal, and at the same time a man of the people, well liked and highly respected. He was married, on February 14. 1849, to Fannie F. Caldwell, of Jamestown, New York. To this union were born three children. Two died in infancy, and Florence C. became the wife of Ira S. Kellogg. Mr. Chandler died February 24, 1893, and his death was mourned as a loss not only to his family and friends but also to the county he had served so well, and whose peace and law he had assisted in establishing: Prof. H. B. Wilson was born in Ilingham, Somerset county, Maine, March 30, 1821. He came from that splendid English stock which at the very outset of the colonization of America es- tablished those principles of liberty and freedom of action which are today the priceless heritage of America. He traced his line- age back to the Mayflower. His parents were natives of Maine. He received his education in the district school and afterward attended the Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill, at that time one of the strongest academies of learning in New England. He con- tinued his studies four years in this institution, paying his own way by teaching and during the vacations doing other work. Shortly after he was twenty years of age. in 1841. he graduated from this 'institution. Born with that Anglo-Saxon spirit of wanderlust, which has back of it the personal desire to make the most of One's self and therefore seeks the newer country where man can be a larger factor in the development that goes on about him, he went to the new West and at Cincinnati, began teaching. From here he went to Lawrenceburg, Ind., and took charge of Dearborn County Seminary, remaining two years, during which time he studied law and was admitted to the bar, although he never practiced his profession. In 1844 he removed to New Albany, Ind., and organized the first graded public school system in that city. He continued to teach and superintend schools until 1850, and in 1858 came to Red Wing and took up the duties of professor in mathematics and civil engineering at Hamline Uni- versity, which was then at Red Wing. In July, 1858, the Asbury University of Indiana conferred upon him, unsolicited, the hon- orary degree of Master of Arts. In June, 1862, he enlisted in Company F, Sixth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and served until he was mustered out in the fall of 1865. He was captain of Company F, and took part with General Sibley in the cam- paign against the Sioux, following the terrible massacre at Wood Lake, Camp Release, witnessed the hanging of the thirty-nine Indians at Mankato and took part in the long march to the Mis- souri river in 1863. At the battle of Wood Lake he received a