Frank R. Chandler

CHANDLER, Frank Randolph, retired; b. Putney, Windham Co., Vt., Oct. 2, 1840; son of Peyton Randolph and Levinah (Knight) Chandler; educated at Saxon's River Academy, Vt., 1853; Ward Seminary, Westminster, Vt., 1855; Ft. Edward (N. Y.) Institute, 1856; Claverack Institute (N. Y.), 1857; Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass., 1858; married Chicago, Feb. 4, 1868, Anna Sophia Buckingham; children: Buckingham, Isabel Buckingham. Clerk In Bank of Bellows Falls, Vt., 1858; clerk In insurance office of S. H. Price, Chicago, 1860; clerk in J. Y. Scammon's Marine Banking Co., Chicago, 1861; asst. mgr. E. I. Tinkham's Clearing House for Illinois Bank Currency, 1862; paying teller Solomon Sturges & Sons Bank, 1863; treas. Chicago Dock Co., 1865; assistant. cashier Third National Bank, 1866; agent Red River Iron Manufacturing Co., 1867; member firm of Chandler, Pomeroy & Noyes, grain commission merchants, 1869, changing to Chandler, Pomeroy & Co., on retirement of E. H. Noyes, 1871; member firm of Chandler & Co. (with Peyton R. Chandler), first mortgages on real estate and loan agents of Hetty H. R. Green, 1873; president of Chandler Mortgage Co., 1897, until May 1, 1902, when sold out to Knott, Chandler & Co., and retired from active business. President Cottage Grove Manufacturing Co. Member, at various times, of Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Real Estate Board, Chicago Stock Exchange. Member Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Art Institute, Field Columbian Museum, Citizens' Association. Republican. Episcopalian. Clubs: Union, Union League. Residence: 182 Rush Street.

Source: The Book of Chicagoans: a biographical dictionary of leading living men of Chicago, 1905, p. 115, downloaded May 2011 from http://books.google.com

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CHANDLER, FRANK RANDOLPH, of Chicago, lL. (Son of Peyton Randolph Chandler, of Chicago, b. 17th Jan., 1818; d. 10th Nov., 1896; President of the Union Stock Yards and Transit Co. ; m. 2nd December, 1838, Levinah, b. 2nd Oct., 182o, daughter of Artemas Knight, of Putney, Vt.).

Bom at Putney, Vt., 2nd Oct., 184o; President of the Chandler Mortgage Co., of Chicago; m. 4th Feb., 1868, Anna Sophia, daughter of Benjamin Hale Buckingham, and Martha Euretta, his wife, daughter of John S. Potwin.

Issue.

(i.) Alphonse Buckingham, b. 22nd Feb., 1878. (ii.) Charles Potwin, b. 1880; d. 1882. (i.) Isabel Buckingham.

Crest—A pelican sable in nest vert feeding her young.

Motto—Ad mortem fidelis.

Residences—182 Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois; Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

Club—Union League.

Source: The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1908, 55 pages, page 338.

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Frank Randolph Chandler, under the pseudonym Onkwe Ganinwari, was the author of Che-cau-gou, a history, published in 1924 by The Faithorn Company, Chicago, 136 pages, [4] p. incl. front., illus. (inc. ports.) 25 cm. Digital version downloaded May 2011 from U of Michigan via http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015025118343