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"While these have been the interests dearest to Mr. Chandler, he was ever inclined to assist other worthy enterprises, those calculated to build up Manchester having the preference. It would be a difficult if not impossible task to enumerate the var- ious enterprises in which he was interested. It is safe to assert that to Mr. Chandler, more than to any other person, is due to the strides taken in the shoe industry in Manchester in the course of the recent years. Mr. Chandler was a director in the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, the Manches- ter & Lawrence railroad, and for several years he was the railroad's treasurer. He was also a direc- tor in the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, the Moline Plow Company, and numer- ous other large enterprises. Aside from his other business connections he was entrusted with numer- ous trusts, involving wise and skillful management of important and extensive interests. His advice was often sought in matters pertaining to invest- ments, and so universal was the confidence in his
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tact and proper conservatism that a good word from him set doubts at rest forthwith. His well- known inclination to help home industries resulted in a unanimous choice of Mr. Chandler for president of the Manchester Board of Trade when that or- ganization was formed, and he took hold of the work with the vim characteristic in everything he undertook, for there was nothing of the lackadaisi- cal order in Mr. Chandler. And when he retired from the presidency of the board a system had been formulated which made the board a most material factor in the city's industrial progress.
"Mr. Chandler was also an organizer and one time president of the New Hampshire Club, which was recently merged in the New Hampshire Ex- change Club. His love for the arts and sciences led him to take a deep interest in the Manchester Institute of Arts and Science, of which organization he was a benefactor of incalculable value from its inception. The Philharmonic Society owed its ex- istence to him, and, if he had not been freely dis- posed to make good the deficits certainly anticipated, the musical festivals, with world-famous artists as soloists. would not have been Manchester's portion. The Chandler course of lectures, another boon to Manchester, was likewise the fruit of his public ' spirit.
"For several years Mr. Chandler was an officer in the Amoskeag Veterans, which organization was formed the same year he came to the city. He was a member of Royal Arch Chapter, Adoniram Coun- cil, and Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, having joined LaFayette Lodge of Masons in 1854. He was transferred to Washington Lodge in 1857, and became its first secretary. He was also a mem- ber of Wildey Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Derryfield Club. Governor Batch- elder appointed him on the board of trustees of the New Hampshire Agricultural College. While Mr. Chandler always took an active interest in politics, he never sought political preferment. In 1874 the Democrats nominated him for State senator and he was elected in a nominally Republican district. He was also nominated for Congress by the Democrats.
"Mr. Chandler had read much and traveled ex- tensively in this and other countries. He possessed a wide acquaintance with distinguished men in all walks of life, and had, therefore, a valuable knowledge of the resources, customs and character- istics of various sections. which stood him in good stead in his business transactions, as well as furnishing him invaluable material for public ad- dresses and private conversations. As a public speaker Mr. Chandler was most pleasing."
Mr. Chandler was married, May 20, 1862. to Miss Flora Ann Daniels, who died May 3, 1868, aged twenty-five years and two months, being sur- vived only a few days by her only child, a daughter. She was a daughter of Darwin J. and Eliza Ann ( Forsaith) Daniels. On October 27, 1870. Mr. Chandler was married to Fanny Rice Martin, only daughter of the late Colonel Benjamin F. and Mary Ann ( Rice) Martin, and she survives him, with the eldest and youngest of their three sons-Benjamin Martin, Alexander Rice and Byron (sce Martin, VI). Mr. Chandler passed to the reward awaiting just men, on Thursday morning, June 29, 1905, at 8:50 o'clock in the morning. His demise caused uni- versal mourning in New Hampshire, and wherever known. The following tribute from the local press sums up his character in fitting terms :
"Mr. Chandler was in many respects the city's foremost citizen. One of the wealthiest men of Manchester, he was at the same time one of the
most democratic. He was public-spirited, and in- terested in everything that pertained to the city's commercial, industrial and intellectual welfare. He prospered in business by the aid of his own ability and industry, as did few Manchester men. He was charitable, and his charity kept pace with his profits. There was. probably, no worthy public charity in which he did not interest himself. While many of his gifts were known to the public, there were many more of his charities that were known to no one but himself and the beneficiary. Many kindnesses to individuals will never be known, in fact his private charities were legion. It was Mr. Chandler's cus- tom every winter to fit out the men on the Becch and Bridge street car lines with gloves. The news- boys that delivered him papers were remembered by him. Almost everybody who came in contact with him had occasion to know his goodness. Though in his own church affiliations he was a Unitarian almost every church in the city has had at one time or another occasion to thank him for some substantial gift. To the rich and the poor, Mr. Chandler was the same modest. helpful citizen. His conservative judgment, ripened by long and wide experience, was highly valued by friends and acquaintances, and his advice was never sought in vain. His good counsel gave hope and ambition to many a young man, and to many an older man, pressed by difficulties, as well."
On the fiftieth anniversary of his connection with the Amoskeag Bank, Mr. Chandler was unable to attend the celebration of that event, but he was presented with a magnificent loving cup by the in- stitution.
(VII) Dr. Moses, sixth son and child of Lieutenant John (4) and Mary (Carter) Chandler, was born November 23. 1765, and died September IO. 1822, aged fifty-six years. He practiced his pro- fession in Newmarket and Lee, New Hampshire, but removed to Fryeburg, Maine, where he died and was buried on his own farm. When about fourteen years old he ran away from his father and enlisted in Concord, in Captain Frye's company of Captain Cilley's regiment, and served his country in the Revolutionary war about one year, for which he received in after life a pension of fifty-six dollars and sixty-six cents per annum. He was a skillful physician, a good citizen, but fond of the sports of that day. He married first, Sally Goodwin, of New- inarket, New Hampshire, who died September 24, 1801, in Fryeburg, leaving four children. He mar- ried second. Mary Langdon, who was born March 21. 1782; and died in May, 1863, aged eighty-one years, and was buried heside her late husband. She was the daughter of Paul Langdon, long the pro- prietor of the academy at Fryeburg, and grand- daughter of Samuel Langdon, president of Harvard College. Dr. Chandler was the father of fifteen children, four by the first wife, and eleven by the second. named as follows: Jeremiah, Enoch. Fol- som, Mary Ann. Nathan, David Sewall, Sarah Good- win, Samuel Langdon, Joseph, Moses. Betsey Chase. Isaac (died voung), Judith, Isaac, Paul Langdon, and Anna Maria.
(VIII) Samuel Langdon. third child and sec- ond son of Dr. Moses and Mary (Langdon) Chan- dler, was born in Fryehurg. Maine, October 7. 1807. and died in Fryeburg, February 16, 1882, aged seventy-five. He had an apothecary store and kept the postoffice in North Conway. New Hampshire, and practiced law there. He removed to Fryeburg. Maine, about 1853, where he was lawyer and justice of the peace, insurance and pension agent. He was representative from Fryeburg, and selectman. He
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owned a farm near Fryeburg and was a member of the Grange. He married first, Mary S. Kilgore, of Fryeburg, who was born December 13, 1813, daugh- ter of Major James Kilgore, who was born May 10. 1792, and married, November 21, 18II, Mehitable Stearns, who was born October 10, 1795, and died September 21, 1841, daughter of Timothy Stearns, of Billerica, Massachusetts, by his wife Mary, daughter of Edward Carlton. Mary Stearns Kil- gore was granddaughter of James Kilgore, of Lovell, Maine, who stood in his place and fired his gun thirty-nine times at the enemies of his country, and was loading the fortieth time when ordered to change his place, in one of the fights during the Revolutionary war. The children of Samuel L. and Mary S. (Kilgore) Chandler were nine, as fol- lows: Mehitable Kilgore, Mary Stearns, Maria Lord, Paul Langdon, James Everett, Paul Lang. don. Mary Abhy Lord, Adrianna, and Frederick, whose sketch follows.
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(IX) Dr. Frederick, youngest child of Samuel L. and Mary S. (Kilgore) Chandler, was born in North Conway, New Hampshire, March 27, 1852. He was educated in the common schools and at Fryeburg Academy. He was a clerk in Charles- town, Massachusetts, and then took one year's course in the medical department of Harvard Col- lege, and then three years at Bowdoin Medical Col- lege, graduating in 1877. He soon after began practice in Minot, Maine. whence a year and a half later he went to Scarboro, and still later settled in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire. In 1890 he re- moved to Amherst, where he has since built up a large and lucrative practice. While in Mont Ver- non he filled the office of town clerk two years. He is a member of Pythagorean Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Fryeburg, and of the Congregationalist Church of Amherst. He mar- ried, November 14, 1878, Ann Eliza Millett. of Minot. Maine, who was born June 16, 1856, daugh- ter of Lemuel and Mary A. (Milliken) Millett. They have one child, Willis Clifford Chandler, horn August 2, 1879, a dentist in Farmington, New Hampshire. He is a graduate of the Milford high school, and of Baltimore Dental College.
(II) Deacon Jolin, fourth child and youngest son of William and Annis Chandler, was born in 1610, and removed from Old Roxbury to New Roxbury (Woodstock, Connecticut), in 1686; was selectman in 1693 and afterward: deacon of the church ; one of six men who bought the Mashamo- quet purchase of fifteen hundred acres, and was one of the prominent men of the town until his death. April 15. 1703. He married Elizabeth daughter of William Douglas and his wife Anna Mattle, daugh- ter of Thomas Mattle, of Ringstead, in Northamp- tonshire, England. William Douglass was of Ips- wich, Massachusetts, in 1641; in Boston, 1645; was made freeman, 1646; moved to New London, Con- necticut, 1650; and was one of the grantees of that place, in 1663, from Charles II. The children of Deacon John and Elizabeth (Douglass) Chandler were: John. Elizabeth, John, Joseph, Hannah, Me- hitabel, Sarah and Joseph.
(III) Captain John, son of John and Elizabeth (Douglas) Chandler, was born April 16, 1665, and at the organization of the town of Woodstock was chosen town clerk, and also appointed to "instruct the children to read, write and cipher." In 1693-94 he was one of the town committee, selectman in 1694. representative to the general court at Boston as early as 1711, and for several years. He lived several years in New London, and in 1698 was li- censed to keep a house of entertainment there. Later
he returned to Woodstock, and in 1703 was town surveyor. During the period of early Indian troubles he was first captain, later major and then colonel. He held many offices of trust, and was judge of the first probate court in Worcester county, Massachusetts, in 1731. In 1735 he was appointed to read the address to Governor Belcher and his council; was a commissioner of the peace nearly forty years, and seven years a member of his majesty's council. He died in Woodstock, August 10, 1743, in his seventy-ninth year, and was buried there, as desired in his will, with a flat stone to cover his remains, without any inscription. He mar- ried Mary Raymond, of Woodstock. fifth child of Deacon Joshua and Elizabeth (Smith) Raymond. Their children were: John, Joshua, William, Mary, Elizabeth, Samuel, Sarah, Mehitabel, Thomas and Hannah.
(IV) Captain William, third son and child of Colonel John and Mary (Raymond) Chandler, was born in New London, Connecticut, November 3, 1698, and died June 20, 1754; married, May 22, 1725, Jemima Bradbury, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, who was born in Salisbury, January 25, 1703-04. and died June 24, 1779. Captain Chandler was a farmer and owned about one thousand acres extending over Chandler hill. He was a surveyor of land, and in 1724 was captain of a company stationed at Leicester and Rutland. The children of Captain William and Jemima (Bradbury) Chandler were : Thomas Brad- bury, William, Lemuel, Theophilus, Jemima, Sam- uel, Mary, Mehitable, Henry and Winthrop.
(V) William, second child and son of Captain William and Jemima (Bradbury) Chandler, was born March 10, 1728; died February 23. 1756; mar- ried, July 5, 1753, Mary Hodges, who died Septem- ber 14, 1796, daughter of Captain William Hodges, of Taunton, by his second wife. William Chandler was admitted freeman in Woodstock, April 8, 1754, and his occupation was ship joiner. The children of William and Mary (Hodges) Chandler were: William and Henry.
(VI) Henry, elder of the two children of Will- iam and Mary (Hodges) Chandler, was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, June 17, 1756. and died June 5, 1813. He was a tailor by trade, which he went to learn, at the age of fourteen, of Samuel Waldo, of Pomfret, Connecticut. He set up in his trade in Pomfret, and had for his sign a cabbage painted as large as life. He was lame. one leg be- ing an inch and a half shorter than the other, caused by disease of the hip joint when he was young. About 1795 he removed from Pomfret to Hanover, New Hampshire, and had a farm about four miles east of the college. Henry Chandler married, .April 10. 1781, Martha Brown, of Pomfret, by whom he had nine children: Nancy, William, Henry Hilton. Mary, William Brown, Jeremiah, John, Rebecca Brown and Nancy.
(VII) Henry Hilton, third child and second son of Henry and Martha (Brown) Chandler, was born June 7, 1786, and died in 1869. He was named by Mary Hodges. his grandmother, who added the name of Hilton for his ancestor, Edward Hilton, of Exeter, New Hampshire. He was about ten years old when his father removed to Hanover. In 1800 he went back to Pomfret and worked for his uncle, Major John W. Chandler, on the Chandler home- stead, but eventually returned to Hanover and car- ried on a wool-carding business at Mill Village, and also attended a saw and grist mill there, besides attending to his official duties as town clerk. He was about five feet ten inches high and weighed in his best days about one hundred and ninety pounds.
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He married, September 11, 1811, Anna Wright, who was born May 20, 1790, daughter of David and Lydia (Tenny) Wright, of Hanover, New Hamp- shire (see Wright, I). Their children were: Clen- entine Celesta, William Henry, David Wright, James Hilton. Clementine, and Celestina. ,
(VIII) Clementine, daughter and fifth child of Henry Hilton and Anna (Wright) Chandler, was born at Hanover, New Hampshire, November 12, 1818; married first, January 1, 1845, David C. Whipple (sec Whipple, V) ; married second, July 1. 1855, John Wright Dodge, who died February, 1897. By her first husband, Clementine had two children- Henry Chandler Whipple and Maragret Perritt Whipple; by her second marriage she had two chil- dren-an infant, born January 21, 1857, died Octo- ber 2, 1857, and Fanny Louisa Dodge, born April 30, 1859.
LEDOUX The Ledoux family, which originated in France, was transplanted to Canada by an early emigrant who arrived there during the period in which Pere Marquette, La Salle, Joliet and other venturesome Frenchmen were exploring the country and opening its portals to European settlers. The posterity of its original ancestor in Canada is quite numerous and the majority of them are residing in the province of Quebec.
(I) The emigrant above referred to was Louis Ledoux of Notre Dame de La Couture, France, who came over about the year 1668, and was married in Montreal, March 20, 1679. He was forty years of age at the time of his arrival in this country.
(II) Jacques Ledoux, son of the immigrant, re- sided in Boucherville, province of Quebec.
(III) Jacques (2), son of Jacques (I), was a resident of Varennes.
(IV) Louis Ledoux, son of Jacques (2), also resided in Varennes.
(V) Amable Ledoux, son of Louis, was a native of Varennes and established his home at Beloeil; later he immigrated to the United States.
(VI) Marcel Ledoux, a son of Amable, went from Belocil, his native town, to St. Albans, Ver- mont. He married Angele Jodoin.
(VII) Toussaint, son of Marcel (6) and Angele (Jodoin) Ledoux, was born in St. Albans, October 27, 1848. After serving an apprenticeship at the machinist's trade he followed it as a journeyman in St. Albans until 1879, when he moved to Nashua, and has ever since resided in that city. He is still engaged in the activities of life, and for some years has occupied the responsibile position of foreman of the International Paper Box Machine Company's plant. As a Democrat in politics he has figured quite prominently in local civic affairs, having served in both branches of the city government and as rep- resentative to the lower house of the state legis- lature. He belongs to the Independant Order of Foresters and when ever occasion demands he dis- plays an earnest interest in Catholic institutions. He married Elmira Bourgeois, who has borne him eight children, four of whom are now living: Henry T., Edmond L., Regis and Elphege.
(VIII) Henri Toussaint, son of Toussaint and Elmira (Bourgeois) Ledoux, was born in St. Albans, Vermont, November 4, 1873. His preliminary studies were pursued in the public schools, and he was a student at St. Therese College in Canada. His legal preparations were completed at the Boston University Law School, from which he was gradu- ated in 1806. He established himself in the practice of his profession at Nashua, in the same year, and is
now conducting a general law business with gratify- ing success. From the time of his majority Mr. Ledoux has evinced a lively interest in public affairs, having served with marked ability in the common council in 1895, was representative to the legislature in 1897-99, has served four years upon the board of public works, and is now tax collector. In politics he is a Democrat. In 1906 he was Democratic can- didate for congress from the second district. He is president of the Montagnards Club and also affiliates with the Independent Order of Foresters, and Knights of Columbus. He married, June 6, 1904. Agnes Manseau, daughter of John B. Manseau, of Nashua,
LANGLANDS This is a name almost unknown in America, though it is probably of ancient origin. It dates from
the time when man, lacking other patronymics, was distinguished by his surroundings, and was doubt- less first applied to some great landholding English squire or Scottish chief ..
(I) William Langlands was born in Scotland, in 1800, and came to America in 1834, settling on Indian Hill, Newburyport, Massachusetts. He was a man of ability, was educated at a university in France, and studied law. Upon coming to this coun- try he made the acquaintance of Major Ben. Perley Poore, who was for years the well known Washington correspondent of the Boston Journal under the signature of "Perley." Major Poore's summer residence was at Indian Hill, and Mr. Langlands worked for him three years, going thence to the town of Newburyport, where he performed the legal business for the town until his death. In 1824 William Langlands married Catherine Campbell, daughter of Daniel Campbell, of Scot- lend. They had six children: George Edward, Margaret, William E., Hannah, Daniel Campbell, whose sketch follows, and Emeline. George Ed- ward gave his life to his adopted country. Dur- ing the Civil war he enlisted in the Eighth Massa- chusetts Regiment, and was at New Orleans under General Butler. At Baton Rouge the "Constitu- tion" was disabled, and he was helping to get out the ammunition when he fell down the hold, break- ing his kneecap. He re-enlisted after that, but was so disabled that he was obliged to give up the ser- vice. He returned home, but his death, which oc- curred only five years later. was due to that injury, which he received on board ship. Margaret Lang- lands, the eldest daughter, married John Ewins, of Newburyport : Hannah married John W. Young, M. D., and Emeline married Lemuel Fuller, of Am- herst, New Hampshire. William Langlands died March 9, 1848, after a residence in America of only fifteen years. His wife died July 7, 1907, at the age of one hundred and three years.
(II) Daniel Campbell, third son and fifth child of William and Catherine (Campbell) Langlands. was horn in West Newbury, Massachusetts, May 13, 1838. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and learned the shoemaker's trade. He afterwards went to South Newmarket, New Hampshire, where he was foreman for thirty-three years of Amos Paul's Machine Company. He re- mained there till after Mr. Paul's death, and then came to Lancaster, New Hampshire, where since 1895 he has managed the large farm for the Mechanics' National Bank and Merrimack County Savings Bank of Concord, New Hampshire. He was one of the organizers of the Connecticut Valley Milk Producers' Association, and he was unanimously clected its first president. He is a Republican, and
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a very influential man in political circles in the northern part of the state. He has held all the town offices; was selectman for ten years and was representative in 1883 and 1895. He has never been defeated for any office. He attends the Universalist Church, and belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Daniel Campbell Langlands has been twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth R., daughter of Captain Cutting and Olive Pettengill, of Newburyport. They have one son, Daniel G., born March 20, 1860, now connected with the firm of James B. Roberts Company in Boston. Mrs. Lang- lands died October 9, 1885. October 12, 1887, Mr. Langlands married Garrey Oaks, daughter of Henry and Olive Weitzel. of Newburyport, Massachusetts. They have one daughter, Catherine Campbell, born September 3, 1888.
FLOYD Charles Miller Floyd. one of the most active, progressive and successful busi- ness men of the city of Manchester, was, like a large proportion of the prominent busi- ness men of the world, reared in the rural districts. His grandfather, John Floyd, was a native of the town of Derry, where he lived and died, passing away in 1829, at the age of about thirty-two years. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a man of sound character. He had four children. viz. : Joseph, Sewall, John and Martha. The elder son died in Boston, and the younger in Maine.
Sewall Floyd lived and died in Derry, where he was born August 26, 1820, and passed away January 5. 1883. The common schools of his native town afforded the limited education which he was privi- leged to enjoy. and though his life was passed in a humble way, his integrity was never doubted. and he was ever conscious of a moral responsibility to himself and his neighbors. His earlier years were passed in teaming and farming, and late in life he purchased a small farm at East Derry, on which he passed his last years. He was a faithful member of the Presbyterian Church: was a Whig in early life and a Republican from the organization of the party under that title, but never sought or accepted any political station. His tastes were domestic, his temper very even, and he was in every way an up- right and respectable citizen. He was married in 1841 to Sarah Sleeper, of Derry, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Sleeper, natives respectively of Kings- ton and Derry. She was born February 13, 1824, and died May 21, 1882. aged fifty-eight years. They were the parents of eleven children: Edward. the eldest, entered the Union army at the age of eighteen, and was one of the martyrs who perished in Andersonville prison. Laura. married Martin Taylor, and died in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Linnae, died at the age of twenty-one years. Will- iam H., resides in Haverhill. Joseph, died at the age of fourteen years. John. a resident of Derry. Benjamin, a resident of Boston. Minnie, who makes her home in Derry. Ernest, died at the age of sixteen years. Charles M .. the subject of the following paragraph. James Edward, died in in- fancv.
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