Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . on journalismfor the last fifty years, during the Civil War beingowners of the Advertiser. He has devoted muchtime and attention to literary work. Chandler, Peleg Whitman, son of Peleg andEsther (Parsons) Chandler, was born in NewCloucester, Me., April 12, 1816 ; died in BostonMay 28, 1889. He was a direct descendant ofEdmund Chandler, who came from England andsettled in Duxbury, Mass., in 1633. There hisgrandfather was born. The home in New Glouc
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . on journalismfor the last fifty years, during the Civil War beingowners of the Advertiser. He has devoted muchtime and attention to literary work. Chandler, Peleg Whitman, son of Peleg andEsther (Parsons) Chandler, was born in NewCloucester, Me., April 12, 1816 ; died in BostonMay 28, 1889. He was a direct descendant ofEdmund Chandler, who came from England andsettled in Duxbury, Mass., in 1633. There hisgrandfather was born. The home in New Glouces-ter was made just prior to the Declaration of Inde-[lendence, and his grandfather represented that townin the General Court of Massachusetts in 1774. Hismaternal grandfather was Col. Isaac Parsons, anative of (doucester, who moved to Maine in also was a member of the General Court, and hewas an officer in the Revolutionary army. father was a graduate of Brown Univer-sity, and a successful counsellor-at-law. Mr. Chand-ler fitted for college in the classical department ofthe Bangor Theological Seminarv, and at the a^e of. PELEG W CHANDLER. eighteen graduated from Bowdoin College in theclass of 1834. He began the study of law in hisfathers office in , then entered the Dane LawSchool at Cambridge, and finished in the Bostonoffice of his kinsman, the late Prof. Theophilus Par- t76 BOSTON OF TO-DAY. sons. He was admitted to the bar in 1837, and es-tablished himself in Boston. Before completing hislegal studies he became associated with the DailyAdvertiser as reporter of law cases in the highercourts, and for many years after he was identifiedwith this paper, a frequent contributor to its edito-rial columns ; for a long period, also, he was one ofits proprietors. In 1838 he established the LawReporter, the first law magazine published in thecountry, and successfully conducted it for about tenyears, when he sold it to Stephen H. Phillips, after-wards atto
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