Branch County MI Archives Biographies.....Chandler, Robert G. 
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Author: 1888 Portrait & Bio Album

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ARTICLE ON ROBERT G. CHANDLER

Robert G. Chandler, of Coldwater, represents the wholesale saddlery and harness
business, and took up his residence here in 1839, since which time he has
acquitted himself as a worthy citizen and a capable businessman. A native of the
Wolverine State, he was born in the city of Detroit, Dec. 21, 1838, and is the
son of Albert and Eliza F. (Abbott) Chandler, a sketch of whom will be found
elsewhere in this volume.

Mr. Chandler spent his boyhood and youth in his native city. At the age of
seventeen he commenced his apprenticeship at the tinner’s trade, at Coldwater,
with the firm of Hale & Chandler, and a year later was promoted to salesman, and
finally succeeded Mr. Hale in the partnership; the firm then, in 1869, became
Chandler & Son, and has thus continued until the present time. 

Upon the Sabbath when the first gun was fired upon Ft. Sumter, our subject
opened a recruiting office for the purpose of recruiting for the Coldwater Light
Artillery, which was afterward known as the famous Loomis Battery. ……….

Mr. Chandler was first married , in 1863, at the home of the bride in Coldwater,
to Miss Julia M., daughter of Henry A. and Lydia Tyler, and who was born at Penn
Yan, N.Y. Of this union there was born one child, a son, Robert T.

Our subject contracted a second marriage, in July, 1873, with Miss Eliza Jane
Abbott, who was born in March, 1844, in Detroit, and the third child of James
and Theresa (Ermitinger) Abbott, whose family consisted fo four children. Their
eldest daughter, Catherine, became the wife of Guy F. Hinchman, and is a
resident of Detroit; Thomas H. is in Detroit; Alice T., Mrs. Fred Chesebrough,
is deceased. Capt. James Abbott was a native of Detroit, and was at one time an
officer in the United States Navy; he made his home in his native city, and died
there about 1860. His wife Theresa, was a native of Michigan, and spent her
younger years in Sault de St. Marie, and is now living in Detroit; she is a
lineal descendant of a noted family in Canada and of English descent.

The early days of Mrs. Chandler were spent mostly at her home in Detroit, and
her studies were completed in a private school at Ann Arbor; she was first
married to James E. Smith, and became the mother of two children – James S. and
William S. These, since her second marriage, have adopted the name of Chandler,
and to our subject and wife there have been born two daughters: Kate E., July
28, 1874, and Alice T., Jan. 10, 1876 They both continue under the parental
roof, and are pursuing their studies in the city school.



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