CHANDLER, PELEG W.
Gilded Age Collections
(Description ID: 594229)
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums
Peleg W. Chandler
GA-8
Introduction
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content
Inventory
Introduction
The Peleg W. Chandler Collection was acquired by the Hayes Presidential Center in 1953.
Biographical Sketch
Peleg Whitman Chandler was born April 12, 1816, in New Gloucester, Maine, to Peleg and Esther Parsons Chandler. He attended Bangor Seminary and Bowdoin College. Upon graduation in 1834, he studied law in his father’s office, the office of Theophilus Parsons, and the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1837. That same year he married Martha Ann Bush. The couple had four children.
In addition to a successful law practice, Peleg Chandler contributed to the legal profession through his writings. He was a reporter for the Daily Advertiser, covering cases in higher courts. He founded the Law Reporter, the first successful legal magazine in the United States. He published the popular, two-volume American Criminal Trials in the United State and London. Chandler was elected to the Boston common council, serving from 1843 to1845. He served two terms (1844-1846, 1862-1863) in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He also served as Boston’s city solicitor from 1846 to1853 and as U.S. Commissioner of Bankruptcy. He was a member of the governor’s council in 1850 as well as a trustee of Bowdoin College. The accomplishment that pleased him most was the establishment and protection of a public garden next to the Boston Common. Peleg Chandler died May 28, 1889, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Scope and Content
The collection contains miscellaneous personal, legal, and political correspondence received by Peleg Chandler from 1845 to1880. The approximately 200 pieces are arranged alphabetically by correspondents’ surnames.
Inventory
Ac. 794
½ linear ft.
ABBOTT, J. G.
n.d, March 29
ADAMS, C. F.
1880, Oct. 6
ANDREW, ISAAC W.
1880, Aug. 26
1880, Aug. 28
ANDREW, JOHN F.
1880, March 25
ANDREW, ALFREDA
1880, June 24
ANDREWS, HENRY C.
1875, March 3
APPLETON, JOHN
1880, June 22
APPLETON, MARY R.
1880, July 4
BARROWS, WM. G.
1880, June 20
BATTLES, W. P.
1880, June 19
BISHOP, ROBERT R.
1879, Nov. 12
1880, Feb. 14
1880, Dec. 17
BONNEY, ANNA
1875, June 1
BOUTWELL, GEO. S
1880, June 19
BRADLEY, C. S.
1879, June 17
BROWN, W. W.
1880, June 25
BROWNE, A. G.
1880, April 26
1880, Aug. 26
1880, Dec. 17
1880, Dec. 20
CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA L.
1878, March 7
1880, Nov. 8
1880, Dec. 11
CHANDLER, PELEG
1845, March 22
1868, Dec. 5 [photocopy]
1874, March 6
1874, May 12
1877, March 29
1878, Jan. 29
CHANDLER, PARKER C.
n.d.
1876, Feb. 23
1876, Feb. 28
1876, March 3
1880, Feb. 17
CHAPMAN, HENRY L.
1880, June 21
CHUTE, S. M.
1875, Jan. 27
CLAPP, MARY G.
1879, March 16
1879, March 20
CLARKE, EDW. H.
1877, April 11
CLEAVELAND, E. P.
1877, Dec. 28
CLEAVELAND, N.
1874, Aug. 3
1875, March 26
1875, April 1
CLIFFORD, JOHN H.
1875, Jan 19
COLE, SAMUEL V.
1880, July 7
CRANDALL, H. BURR
1880, Aug. 31
1880, Sept. 7
1880, Sept. 21
CROSS, JOSEPH
1874, April 9
DEANE, CHARLES
1878, June 15
1880, Aug. 21
DELANO, THOS. W.
1880, June 24
DIXWELL, J. J.
1875, May 15
EASTMAN, CHAS. E., MRS.
1878, May 6
1878, May 7
EVERETT, C. C.
1879, May 26
FIELD, W. A.
1880, July 9
FISHER, GEO. A.
1874, Nov. 11
FORBES, J. M.
n.d., Jan. 18
FRYE, WM. P.
1880, July
GIBBS, GEO. L.
1880, June 24
GODDARD, C. W.
1875, March 20
GODDARD, D. A.
1880, Feb. 13
1880, June 20
1880, Aug. 23
GOODENOW, J. H.
1878, March 4
GRAY, WM.
1880, March 20
HALE, CHARLES
1875, July 23
1876, July 5
HALE, EDW. E.
1874, Oct. 16
1876, Aug. 20
1878, Feb. 8
1880, Mach 23
HAMLIN, CYRUS
1874, June 16
1878, Dec. 16
1879, March 28
1880, July 23
1880, Aug. 9
HAMMOND, S. C. F.
1879, Jan. 4
HASKELL, DANL. N.
1872, Sept. 10
1874, Sept. 17
HAVEN, FRANKLIN
1875, Feb. 20
HIBBARD, J. R.
1874, Nov. 3
HIGGINSON, THOS. WENTWORTH
1880, Nov. 13
HOPKINS, C. F.
1880, June 20
HOAR, E. R.
1870, July 31
1875, April 2
1880, Dec. 7
HOVEY, WM. A.
1877, Jan. 1
1877, Nov. 7
HOWARD, CHAS.
1874, March 11
1874, Sept. 26
1874, Nov. 22
1875, March 14
KENNARD, M. P.
n.d.
1880, April 22
1880, June 19
LEE, HENRY
1880, June 25
LEVERETT, GEO. V.
1874, Nov. 11
LOTHROP, S. K.
n.d., Jan. 9
1874, Nov. 11
1874, Nov. 30
LOVEJOY, CARO S.
1874, Oct. 15
1874, Dec. 5
LOWE, A. T.
1870, June 22
LUNT, WM. PARSONS
n.d., June 22
MCCLARY, S. F.
1878, Feb. 5
MCKEEN, F. A.
1878, Dec. 29
MCKEEN, JAMES
1875, Feb. 16
MILLS, R. T.
1880, Dec. 12
MORISON, J. H.
1880, March, 31
1880, Dec. 8
MORSE, R. M., JR.
n.d., Jan. 21
MUNSON, N. C.
1880, June 24
MUZZEY, H. W.
1878, Jan. 11
NEWTON, WM. S.
1880, June 26
NORTHEND, W. D.
1880, June 29
PACKARD, A. S.
n.d.
1880, Jan. 19
1880, Aug. 23
1880, Dec. 15
PACKARD, GEO. T.
n.d.
PAINE, ALBERT W.
1880, Dec. 14
PARSON, ELLEN E.
n.d., Sept. 3
PARSONS, THEOPHILUS
n.d., March 17
1875, Feb. 5
1878, Jan. 30
PEABODY & STEARNS
1880, Nov. 1
PERKINS, FREDERIC BEECHER
1876, Feb. 1
PETTEE, JOS.
1874, March 5
1880, July 6
PIERCE, EDWARD L.
n.d.
1874, May 14
PIERCE, HENRY B.
1880, May 22
PIERCE, FREDERICK O.
1879, Oct. 14
PLAISTED, H. M.
1880, June 29
PUTNAM, GEORGE, JR.
1874, Aug. 27
1874, Sept. 1
QUINCY, JOSIAH
1880, Sept. 1
REED, JAMES
1875, March 10
REED, JOHN
1880, June 23
1880, June 19
RICE, ALEX H.
1875, March 24
1876, Jan. 10
1877, March 28
1880, Jan. 7
1880, Jan. 19
1880, Aug. 4
RICE, W. W.
1880, March 28
ROSS, A.
1880, Aug. 4
SANGER, GEORGE P.
1878, Nov. 25
SEWALL, J. B.
1880, May 15
SIMMONS, W. A.
1878, March 2
SMITH, CHAS. C.
n.d., June 29
1880, June 28
1880, Aug. 19
1880, Aug. 24
1880, Dec. 21
SPRAGUE, F. P.
1880, Oct. 13
SPRAGUE, P.
1879, April 16
STEARNS, WILLIAM G.
1878, Jan. 11
THATCHER, GEO. A.
1874, May 11
THAYER, J. B.
1874, Jan. 7
1874, Sept. 1
1874, Sept. 4
1875, March 28
1878, Feb. 7
1878, April 24
1880, June 21
1880, Nov. 20
TUTLE, C. W.
1880, Aug. 27
WASHBURN, EMORY
1875, May 16
WATERMAN, JOHN A.
1880, Oct. 5
WATERS, E. F.
n.d.
1876, Feb. 10
WHEELER, A. S.
1880, Dec. 7
WHIPPLE, E. P.
1880, March 31
WINSOR, JUSTIN
1879, March 10
1880, Jan. 16
WINTHROP, ROB. C.
1880, June 22
WOODBERRY, D. S.
1880, July 30
WOODMAN, CYRUS
1880, April 21
1880, May 14
1880, Sept. 3
WOODMAN, JABEZ
1874, March 2
YOUNG, S. J.
1874, Nov. 17