Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . of Iepresentatives, and took aleading part in the legislation of those was chairman of the legislative committeewhich gave to Boston her water suitpiv andcarried the bill tliPdUgh the In JunelS4(i III was chosen city solicitor, served until18o3, and duiing this period prepared andpublished a volume containing the ordinances BIOGRAPHICAL.—MASSA CHUSE TTS. 593 of tlie city witli a digest of tlie laws relatingthereto. After his retirement from th
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . of Iepresentatives, and took aleading part in the legislation of those was chairman of the legislative committeewhich gave to Boston her water suitpiv andcarried the bill tliPdUgh the In JunelS4(i III was chosen city solicitor, served until18o3, and duiing this period prepared andpublished a volume containing the ordinances BIOGRAPHICAL.—MASSA CHUSE TTS. 593 of tlie city witli a digest of tlie laws relatingthereto. After his retirement from the eitysolicitorship hr was aiiiiointeil to Ievise thecitv charter and suhsequent laws aifecting , winle a Inited States commissionerof bankruptcy, lie ]uihlished a useful work onthe 15anki-u|itcy haws of the United States,and the Outline of the System, with Rules andForms in Massachusetts. In I S.)() he was amember of (iovernor Emory Washburns coun-cil and was foremost among the citizens whoplanned ami advocated the J3ack Bay im-provement. Tiie act of , ])roviding forthe establishment of the rnblic (Jarden, was. PELEG VV. CHANDLER. drawn by him. At his own e.\[icnse and un-der his earnest leadersliij), the attempts to sellthe Pul)lie (iarden, then marsh land, and cutit nj) into liouse lots, was defeated, l)ut he wasnot satisHed until lie had secured a law andcarried through a referendum and had a voteof the jteople of ]>oston to forever dedicate topulilic use the beautiful garden l>y BostonCommon. Mr. (Hiandler jiriiled himself onthis service to the [)ublic more than any otheract in his life. In he was i)residentialelector at the first election of Abiaham the time of his death Mr. Chandler was one of the oldest meml)ers of tlie Massachu-setts Historical Society. He prepared a me-moir of Governor Andrew for the society andthis, subsequently enlarged, was published ina separate volume. Another work from hisgraceful pen was a striking essay
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