MEMOIR

OF

PELEG WHITMAN CHANDLER.

Br EDWARD STANWOOD.

PELEG WHITMAN CHANDLER was born in New Gloucester, Maine, April 13, 1816. His father was Peleg Chandler, counsellor-at-law, a graduate of Brown University, who died in 1847. His grandfather, Peleg Chandler, a native of Duxbury, Massachusetts, emigrated to. New Gloucester just prior to the Declaration of American Independence. He was an active and prominent citizen, and represented the town in the General Court of Massachusetts in 1784. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Chandler was Colonel Isaac Parsons, a native of Gloucester, Massachusetts, who went to New Gloucester in 1761, a man of considerable fortune, who was held in high estimation. was an officer in the Continental Army, and was several times elected a member of the General Court of Massachusetts from the District of Maine.

He

The foregoing paragraph is copied entire from a brief biographical sketch of himself on nine sheets of newspaper "copy paper" in the possession of his son, Horace Parker Chandler.

Mr. Chandler was fitted for Bowdoin College at the classical department of the Bangor Theological Seminary, entered college in 1830, and was graduated with high honor in 1834, at the age of eighteen years. He studied law with his father, at the Harvard Law School, and in the office of his kinsman, Theophilus Parsons, in Boston. In 1837 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and remained in the active practice of his profession for almost half a century. For many years he was one of the most prominent practising lawyers of Boston in court cases; but during almost one-half of his professional life the infirmity of deafness compelled him to confine

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