Chandler, Abiel (1807-1881)

Name:

Chandler, Abiel (1807-1881)

Title:

Officer, Concord Society of Natural History
Member, New Hampshire Historical Society
Trustee, Concord Library

Born:

04/02/1807

Birthplace:

Concord, NH

Died:

04/22/1881

Death Location:

Concord, NH

Residence:

Concord, NH

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Gold and silversmith.
Maker of surveying instruments and clocks.
Florist and horticulturalist.

Father:

Chandler, Timothy (Major) (1762-1848)

Mother:

Abbot, Sarah (1769-1857)

Relations:

Partnership, A. Chandler & Company, Concord, NH, 1829-1830
(Timothy Chandler and Abiel Chandler)
Siblings:
Chandler, Peregrine White (1788-1792)
Chandler, Sarah (1791-; m. Abel Blanchard Eastman)
Chandler, Peregrine Hale White (1793-1828)
Chandler, Judith (1796-1851; unmarried)
Chandler, Timothy Jay (1798-; unmarried)
Chandler, Isaac Abbot (1801-1819)
Chandler, John Bradley (1805-; m. Maria French)
Chandler, Seneca (1809-1810)
Chanlder, Elizabeth (1812-1844)

Spouse:

Maria Lamson Felt, October 31, 1833

Children:

Chandler, Jacob F. (res. Concord, NH)
Chandler, Henry G. (res. Concord, NH)
Chandler, Lydia B. (m. Jacob W. Manning of Wakefield, MA)
Chandler, Mary B. (res. Concord, NH)
Chandler, Nancy F. (res. Concord, NH)

Notes:

George Chandler. The Chandler Family. The Descendants of William and Annis Chandler Who Settled in Roxbury, Mass. 1637. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Charles Hamilton, 1883), 592-593.

Henry N. Flynt and Martha Gandy Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver. With Biographical Sketches of New England Silversmiths, 1625-1825. (Old Deerfield, Massachusetts: The Heritage Foundation, 1958), 179.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Cranbury, New Jersey: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 89.

Luther S. Spangler, "Major Timothy Chandler Clock Manufacturer of Concord, N.H.," Timepieces Quarterly, Feb 1949, 99-101.

Philip Zea and Robert C. Cheney, Clock Making in New England, 1725-1825. An Interpretation of the Old Sturbridge Village Collection. (Sturbridge, Massachusetts: Old Sturbridge Village, 1992), 98-101, 116, 163, 169.

Dissolution of Partnership Notice, New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, Concord, NH, December 13, 1830, 4.

"Death of Abiel Chandler," The People and New Hampshire Patriot, Concord, NH, April 28, 1881, 3.