Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . rnal side of EdmundChandler who came from England in 10;5;5and settled in Duxbury. His maternal giand-mother was a Parsons, of the Chief JusticeParsons line and he is from three generationsof lawyers. His mother was a daughter ofProfessor Parker Cleaveland, Harvard, 1799,and for years the leading geologist of theUnited States at Powdoin College. Mr. Chand-ler has mnr^ualh close relations with the col- lege world of New England. His fither wasgraduated at Uowdo
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . rnal side of EdmundChandler who came from England in 10;5;5and settled in Duxbury. His maternal giand-mother was a Parsons, of the Chief JusticeParsons line and he is from three generationsof lawyers. His mother was a daughter ofProfessor Parker Cleaveland, Harvard, 1799,and for years the leading geologist of theUnited States at Powdoin College. Mr. Chand-ler has mnr^ualh close relations with the col- lege world of New England. His fither wasgraduated at Uowdoin, his paternal grand-father at l>ro\\ II, his materiial grandfather atHarvard, his great-grandfather at Vale; and hisbrother at lIai-\-ard while he was gi-aduated atWilliams. Mr. Chandler litted for eollege at the HostonLatin school and was graduated hom Will-iams college with the class of !. Hestudied law a( the Hai\ard Law m-IiooI, wherehe took (he LP. I!, degret in l,S7-l, and in theotlice of his father. lie was aihnitted to theSutlidk bar in 1S7). |)uring the pcriod of hispiactice .Mi, (baniller has been almost e.\-. IARKER C. CHAiNULER. clusively engaged in e<ii[ioralion matleis, andhas been retained as counsel in many notablecases, including the famous seven 3ears contestof the American Pell Telephone Company \ l)rawi)augh Telephone Com[)any, and of Cyrus W. Kield \s. the New IJiglaiiilRailroad. Ior sc\eral years he has served ascounsel foi the ISaltimore and Ohio Railroad(oni[)any and for \arioiis gas, elictrical andother Ioipiirations. Although caring for so many large interestsas a lawyer, Mr. (Jhandler has found time todi\ote to [lolitics and social life. lie was oik BIOGRA PHICA L. —MA SSA CHUSETTS. 595 of tlie originators of the Bristow niovcnientwithin tlie republican party in 1876, wliielifirst vigorously advocated civil service reformand secured its rec()<;niti<iii in political part}|ilatforins. fjatei-, in the campaign for the
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