The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 171. CHANDLER, Albert Brown, president of\^? Postal telegraph cable company, was born atWest Randolph, Vt., Aug. 30, 1840, and is the sonot William Brown and
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 171. CHANDLER, Albert Brown, president of\^? Postal telegraph cable company, was born atWest Randolph, Vt., Aug. 30, 1840, and is the sonot William Brown and Electa (Owen) Chandler family is descended from three bro-thers, who settled in Roxbury, Mass., in 1637, andAlbert Brown is also directly de-scended from Mary Winthrop,daughter of John Winthrop, thefirst governor of received an academic ed-ucation, and, during liis vaca-tions, worked as a compositor inprinting offices in his native town,and in Montpelier, Vt. A tele-graph office, located in a bookstore at West Randolph, led tohis becoming a telegraph mes-senger and operator. In Octo-ber, 1858, through the influenceof his eldest brother, WilliamWallace Chandler, then generalfreight agent of the Cleveland &Pittsburg i-ailway, he was ap-pointed manager of the WesternUnion telegraph office at Bellaire,O. Early in 1859 he was promotedto a position in the office of the superintendent of theCleveland &am
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