Bio of CHANDLER, John (b.1836), Mower Co., MN

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I have a book about the early settlers of Mower County alas it is missing 

its cover and the first four pages so I can not identify who printed it 

or when. This file is a list of the townships and individuals identified 

in the book.



JOHN CHANDLER was born in Milton, Canada, October 26, 1836.  

Here he spent his younger days on the farm and in school.  When he was 

seventeen he came to Wisconsin and clerked in a hotel in Union.  

In '56 he came to Lyle and took up a claim, but later waived his right 

to other parties who built a saw mill and grist mill on it.  The first 

sawed for nearly a year, but the latter ground but one grist, when the 

exceedingly wet rains of '58 washed out the dam and mills.  A part of 

this claim was platted for Cedar City.  His brother, D. L., had already 

opened up his farm, and the father came the next year.  John and his 

father constructed the first mill in the county, making it out of a 

hollow log and an iron wood pestle, which hung on a spring pole, and 

could reduce corn to hominy and even pretty fine meal at a lively rate.  

This mill was in great use by the Chandlers and their neighbors in 

preparing corn for hominy and Johnny cakes.  In order to pre-empt his 

claim he borrowed money in Chatfield at 50 per cent interest.  It was 

hard times for everybody, and he finally lost all his land but sixty 

acres, and was obliged to sell his yoke of oxen which he paid $100 for, 

at a loss of $60.  The next few years he did carpenter work with his farm 

work.  In '60 he began working in a saw mill at Moscow, first as an 

employe, (sic) then renter and finally owned it for five years.  

He then entered the grocery business in Austin with his brothers, 

Sterling and William, but later moved back to his farm.  He now has 320 

acres of land, and crops enough to free him from debts in which he became 

involved while doing business in Austin.  He first married Sarah Vancil, 

Apr. 15, '60.  She died in '71, leaving him three children, Amy Eldora, 

Iva A., and Stephen D.  In '74 he married for his second wife Emily J. 

Lawyer.  They have two children, Carrie Bell, born Feb. 24, and Ruth 

Rebecca, born Aug. 14, '86.

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