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 CHANDLER.

CHANDLER.

CHANDLER, Abiel, philanthropist, was born

in Concord, N. H., Feb. 2G, 1777; son of Daniel and Sarah (Merrill) Chandler, and grandson of Capt. John Chandler, one of the original propri- etors of Concord. At the age of twenty-one he was given a tract of forty acres of land in Stowe, Me., on the condition that he would settle there. He worked on his farm in summer,:«ttending the Fryeburg, and afterwards Phillips, academy in winter, and was graduated at Harvard in 1806. He then taught school for nearly twelve years, and later became a commission merchant in Bos- ton, acquiring wealth and distinction. He retired in 1845. In his will, after providing generously for his immediate family, and be- queathing legacies to more than fifty nephews and nieces, he left fifty thousand dollars to Dart- mouth college to establish a scientific school, and the residue of his estate, amounting to twenty- five thousand dollars, to the asylum for the insane in New Hampshire. He died in Walpole, N. H., March 22, 1851.

CHANDLER, Charles Frederick, chemist, was born at Lancaster, Mass. , Dec. 6, 1836. He studied at the Lawrence scientific school of Har- vard university, and then at Gottingen and Berlin, gaining his Ph.D. degree in 1856. Irk 1857 he was appointed professor of chemistry in Union col- lege, removed to New York, 1864, and joined Thomas Egleston and Francis L. Vinton in organ- izing the Columbia college school of mines, in which he was dean and professor of analytical and applied chemistry. He became professor of chemistry in the college of pharmacy in 1866, and adjunct professor of chemistry and medical jurisprudence in the college of physicians and surgeons in 1872, taking the full chair in 1876. He was chemist to the New York city board of health and its president for several years. Among the beneficial results of his work in this field were the careful inspection of milk, improve- ments in the markets, the supervision of slaugh- ter-houses and their restriction to prescribed regions on the rivers, restrictive legislation con- cerning the quality of kerosene and the tene- ment-house act. His connection with the state board of health was also fruitful in restraining the adulteration of food. He investigated the water supply of New York in 1866, of Brooklyn in 1868 and 1870, of Albany in 1872-'85, and of Yonkers in 1874; reported on waters for locomo- tives in 1865; analyzed the springs at Saratoga in 1863, and at Ballston in 1869, and directed analyses for several geological surveys. He is the author of contributions to the American Jour- nal of Science, the American Chemist, which he conducted with his brother. Prof. W. H. Chan- dler, from 1870 to 1877; the reports of the health department and the national academy of sci-

ences. He presided in 1884 at the chemical con- vention which assembled at Northumberland, Pa., to commemorate Priestley's discovery of oxygen. He was made a member of the national academy of sciences in 1874, and became a life member of the chemical societies of London, Ber- lin, Paris and New York. He received the degree: of M.D. from the University of New York, and that of LL.D. from Union college, both in 1873.

CHANDLER, Charles Henry, educator, was. born in New Ipswich, N. H., Oct. 25, 1840; son of James and Nancy (White) Chandler. His father was a member of the legislatures of Massachu- setts and New Hampshire, and a direct descend- ant of Roger Chandler of Concord, Mass., wha came from Plymouth colony in 1658, and was. probably a son of Roger Chandler of Duxbury, and Isabella, daughter of James Chilton of the Mayfloiver. Charles H. Chandler was graduated at Dartmouth college in 1868, taught in the New Ipswich Appleton academy, at the Kimball union academy, and was principal of the Thet- ford academy and of that at St. Joluisbury (Vt.). In 1871 he was made professor of physics and chemistry at Antioch college, and held the chair until 1877, when he became professor of mathe- matics and physics. In 1881 he was made a- professor at Ripon (Wis.) college, at first holding- the chair of chemistry and physics, afterwards changed to that of mathematics and physics, and after 1889 to that of mathematics alone.

CHANDLER, Elizabeth Margaret, author, was born at Centre, near Wilmington, Del., Dec. 24, 1807; daughter of Thomas and Margaret. (Evans) Chandler. She was taken to Philadel- phia at an early age, and educated in Quaker schools until she was thirteen years old. She began to write verses when in her ninth year, and at the age of sixteen became a frequent, contributor to the press. In 1824 she wrote The Slave Sliijj, for which she was awarded th* third premium by the Casket. This was copied into the Genius of Universal Emancipation, to wliich paper she was invited to contribute fre- quently. In 1829 she became editor of the Ladies'' Repository, a department in that maga- zine, and wrote chiefly on the subject of eman- cipation, being the first American woman author to make this subject the principal theme of her writings. In 1830 slie removed to Michi- gan, settling near Tecumseh, where she contin- ued to write for the press. She is tiie author of Essays. Philanthrojnc and Moral (1836), and Poetical Works (1845. new ed., 1886). See The Poetical Works of Elizaheth Margaret Chandler; with a Memoir of Iter Life and Character by Benjamin Lundy (1845). Slie died at "Hazel- bank," near Tecumseh, Lenawee county, Mich.,. Nov. 2. 1834.