Rutland

CHANDLER, Frank

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 67-68 
(portrait p 68)

Frank CHANDLER, of Brandon [Rutland County, Vermont], was born 13 June 1838 
in Coleraine [Franklin County], Massachusetts. His education was chiefly 
obtained at West Brattleboro high school [Windham County, Vermont], and he 
commenced a mercantile career in his early boyhood. For some twelve years he 
was employed as a clerk in different situations, the last six being in a 
wholesale clothing store in Montreal. Since that time he has devoted himself 
to agricultural pursuits, and in connection with these has conducted a summer 
resort at Silver Lake, Leicester [Addison County, Vermont], where for the 
past fourteen years he has held semi-annual camp meetings, to which societies 
of every denomination have been heartily welcomed.

In 1864 in Leicester* Mr. [Frank] CHANDLER was wedded to Ellen M., daughter 
of Stephen and Sarah ALDEN. To them eight children have been born: Sarah 
Ella, deceased; John B.; Frank E.; Mary A.; Rufus A., deceased; Grace A.; 
Gertrude L.; and Ernest D., deceased. He has held many responsible offices 
in the town of Leicester, which he represented in Montpelier [in the Vermont 
Legislature] in 1878. He has been prominent in the organization of the Good 
Templars and Patrons of Husbandry, and for more than thirty years has been an 
active member of St. Paul's Lodge, Free & Accepted Masons, No. 25, of Brandon 
[* Author probably means Leicester, Addison County, Vermont. There is also a 
Leicester in Worcester County, Massachusetts.]

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