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Kept on Wikipedia:Peleg Chandler

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Peleg Whitman Chandler (April 12, 1816 - May 28, 1889) was an American lawyer, legal news reporter and editor, Boston's city attorney (solicitor), and a two-term state legislator in the Massachusetts General Court.[1][2] As City Solicitor, Chandler defended Boston's exclusion of African American students from its public schools in Roberts v. City of Boston.[3][4] Chandler authored a memoir of governor John A. Andrew.

Chandler was born in New Gloucester, Maine on April 12, 1816. He studied at Bangor Theological Seminary and received his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College in 1834. He studied law with his father, in the law office of Theophilus Parsons, and at Harvard Law School. Chandler was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar Association in 1837. Chandler practice law in Boston and served as a reporter for the Boston Advertiser writing about legal matters. Chandler served on the Boston City Council from 1843 to 1845. He served in the Massachusetts Governor's Council in 1850. Chandler served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1844 and 1845 and in 1862 and 1863. Chandler died, at his home, from heart failure, after a long illness, in Boston, Massachusetts on May 28, 1889.[5][6][7][8]

Photograph of Massachusetts Hall, Bowdoin College from the Historic American Buildings Survey

Chandler's father and grandfather were also named Peleg Chandler.[2] Chandler graduated from Bowdoin College in 1834. His father-in-law was Professor Parker Cleaveland. In 1872, Chandler funded the refurbishment of Bowdoin College's Massachusetts Hall, Bowdoin College according to designs by A.C. Martin which included removal of a staircase, the creation of a first-floor recitation room and space to house the Cleaveland Cabinet of mineral and natural history specimens.[9]

Some books by Chandler are American Criminal Trials,[10] Memoir of Governor Andrew,[11] The Morals of Freedom,[12] The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston,[13] A Statement in Reply to Mr. Stevenson's Letter to the Wednesday Evening Club,[14] and The Bankrupt Law of the United States[15].

Chandler's papers are kept several institutions including the Phillips Library[16], Massachusetts Historical Society[17], the Hayes Presidential Center[18], and the Bowdoin College Library[19].

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0196
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://books.google.com/books?id=0QY8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA281&dq="Peleg+Chandler"&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjvy7PVno3bAhVJ0FMKHQAfBc4Q6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q="Peleg%20Chandler"&f=false
  3. ↑ Boston school boycotted in 1840s Feb 23, 1964 Boston Globe section A page 5
  4. ↑ Report to the Primary School Committee, June 15, 1846, on the ...
  5. ↑ Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museums-Peleg W. Chandler Gilded Age Collections, Biographical Sketch
  6. ↑ 'Useful And Upright-The Long Life of The Hon. Peleg W. Chandler-Which Ended Quietly at His Residence This Morning,' The Boston Daily Globe, May 28, 1889, pg. 5
  7. ↑ 'Obituary-Peleg W. Chandler,' Boston Post, March 29, 1889, pg. 4
  8. ↑ 'Commonwealth of Massachusetts-Manual For The Use Of The General Court 1863,' S.N. Gifford/William S. Robinson-editors, Wright & Potter State Printer, Boston, Massachusetts: 1863, Massachusetts House of Representative-Alphabetical List, pg. 214
  9. ↑ http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/10/whispering-pines-one-hearth-many-lives/
  10. ↑ "American criminal trials". worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Memoir of Governor Andrew, with personal reminiscences". worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  12. ↑ "The morals of freedom : an oration delivered before the authorities of the city of Boston, July 4, 1844". worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  13. ↑ "The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston : together with the Acts of the Legislature relating to the city". worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  14. ↑ "A statement in reply to Mr. Stevenson's letter to the Wednesday evening club". worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  15. ↑ "The bankrupt law of the United States, with an outline of the system : together with the rules and forms in Massachusetts, and references to recent decisions". worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  16. ↑ "Peleg Whitman Chandler (1816-1889) Papers". phillipslibrarycollections.pem.org. Phillips Library. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  17. ↑ "Peleg W. Chandler Legal Papers". masshist.org. Massachusetts Historical Society. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  18. ↑ "CHANDLER, PELEG W." rbhayes.org. Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  19. ↑ "Chandler Family Papers M029". library.bowdoin.edu. Bowdoin College. Retrieved May 18, 2018.

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