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 HON. JOHN CHANDFER.

��This and kindred scenes of his life's -experience have united to make sa- cred and hallowed to his memory the rocks and hills of New Hampshire, and especially endear to him the peo- ple of Newmarket, with whom no name is more honored, and no per- son more deeply respected and beloved. He visits the town frequently, and loves to look upon the scenes where he passed the best years of his life, and knew its highest success, and buried its fondest hopes.

His whole life was one unbroken •effort to reach the grandest height for which a man ever strives — pure, exalted

��manhood. Haj)py is the man whose years are passed as were his — without a blemish : but they are few.

About him everywhere, are remind- ers of strong friendships and stronger deeds, whose associated persons and forms are in the dim far-away. Their vistas hang about his memory's hiding- places, and shed sweet fragrance around his lonely heart and home, as he reviews, in the silvery evening, the story of a life well spent, nearing that golden land where all good deeds are treasured up, in a chaplet of eternal flowers.

��HON. JOHN CHANDLER.

��BY WILLIAM H. SMITH.

��Two hundred and forty-six years ago William Chandler immigrated from England to America, with his family, and settled in Roxbury, Mass. Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians, who was ■his pastor, speaks of this family ia his record as follows :

'' AVilliam Chandler came to New England about 1037. He brought four small children, 'i'homas, Hanna. John, and William. Sarah was born here. He lived a very religious and g'OilIy life among us. and fell into a consumption to which lie had been long inclined. He lay neare a yea)-e sick, inall which time his faith, patience, godliness and conten- tion so shiued that God was much glorified in him. He was a man of weak parts, but excellent faith and lioly- ness; he was poore, but God so opened the hearts of his naybors to him yt he never wanted yt which was (at least to .his esteem) very plentiful and comforta- ble to him. He dyed Jan. 20. 1041-2 and left a sweet memory- and savor V)eliind him."

His widow married John Dane of Roxbury. He was the ancestor of ■the famous Nathan Dane, of Beverly, Mass., Nathan Dane, of Alfred, Me., -and Joseph Dane, of Kennebunk, Me.

��The Chandler estate in Roxbury consisted of ten acres ; it was located on what is now the southerly corner of Eartlett and Washington streets. The brick stable of the Metropolitan rail- road company stands on a part of this estate. Thomas, the oldest son, mar- ried Hannah Brewer. He was one of the proprietors of Andover, Mass. His name is twenty-third of the house- holders in order as they came to town. He died in 1703; his wife in 171 7, aged eighty-seven. He became a rich man before his death. He was a blacksmith by trade, and carried on a considerable iron business.

His son, Joseph Chandler, born August 3, 1669, married, in 1 691, Sarah Abbot. He was a blacksmith of Andover and Salisbury, Mass.

His son, Joseph Chandler, born 1694, married Mary Tucker. He worked at blacksmithing and iron work- ing, and while straightening a bar of iron under the tilt hammer it flew up and knocked all his front teeth out ; but he was a sweet singer afterward.

His son, Capt. Joseph Chandler, born in Salisbury, Mass., in 1725,

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