BIOGRAPHY OF HON. GEORGE BYRON CHANDLER of Manchester NH
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Manchester, A Brief Record of its Past and A Picture of Its Present, 
including an account of is settlement and its growth as town and city; 
a history of its schools, churches, societies, banks, post-offices, 
newspapers and manufactures; a description of its government, police 
and fire department, public buildings, library, water-works, 
cemeteries, streets, streams, railways and bridges; a complete list of 
the selectmen, moderators and clerks of the town and members of the 
councils, marshals and engineers of the city, with the state of the 
cote for mayor at each election; the story of its part in the war of 
the rebellion with a complete list of its soldiers who went ot the war; 
and sketches of its representative citizens; Manchester N.H.; John B. 
Clark; 1875
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THE HON. GEORGE BYRON CHANDLER
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George Byron Chandler was born November 18, 1832, in Bedford NH. He is
the son of Adam and Sally (McAllister) Chandler and one of a family of
four children, three sons and one daughter, of whom two besides
himself survive,--Henry, of the firm of Plumer, Chandler & Company,
and John M., of the firm of John M. Chandler & Company, both of this
city. He acquired an education at the acadamies in Piscataquog Village,
Gilmanton, Hopkinton and Reed's Ferry, taught school two seasons in
Bedford, one in Amoskeag village and one in Nashua and assisted his
father on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age. At the age of
seventeen he spent one year, however, as a civil engineer in the
employ of the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad.
  In March 1854, he came to this city and became a bookkeeper for
Kidder & Duncklee. In one year from that time, March 1855, he was
appointed teller of the Amoskeag Bank and held the position until the
organization of the Amoskeag National Bank in 1864, when he was chosen
its cashier and now holds that position. He has been a long which
cashier of the Amoskeag Savings Bank and in 1874, upon the organization
of the People's Savings Bank, he was apopinted its treasurer. He was a
director of the old Amoskeag Bank in the last year of its existence
and a trustee of the Amoskeag Savings Bank from 1867 to 1870. He
was a director of the Blodget Edge Tool Manufacturing Company in 1861
and since 1866 has been a director of the Amoskeag Axe Company, which
succeeded it.  In 1867 he was elected a director of the Manhcester and
Lawrence Railroad, but resigned in 1872 to become its treasurer.  He was
elected, as the nominee of the Democratic party, state senator in 1874.
  Mr. Chandler married, in 1862, Miss Flora A.--, daughter of the
late Hon Darwin J. Daniels, once mayor of the city,--who died in May,
1868, and by whom he had one daughter who survived her mother but a
short time. For his second wife he married, in 1870, Miss Fannie R.,
daughter of Col. B.F. Martin of this city, by whom he had one child--
Benjamin Martin.
  Mr. Chandler comes of a fine family and was reared under the best of
home influences, to habits of honest and accuracy. His father and 
mother were estimable people, of strong minds and straightforward, 
upright lives. THe lofty ideas that were instilled into him in youth
he has never forgotten and his integrity has never been questioned.
He has had the handling of vast sums of money and the different 
corporations he represents have entire confidence in his honesty,
capacity and financial shrewdness.  He is a liberal man and a good
citizen and but once has turned aside from the life of a banker to
enter into that of politics, and then only for a short time, positively
refusing a second nomination from his party for the position he had
once held.

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