James M. Chandler

CHANDLER, James M. – James M. Chandler was born April 23, 1833 in Washington County, Arkansas, a son of Jacob Chandler, born in 1793 in Kentucky, and Elizabeth Reeder, born in Tennessee. In 1856 in Washington County, Arkansas, he married Margaret L. Morrow, the daughter of Rev. George Morrow. They became the parents of a son, William M. Chandler. Mrs. Chandler died in 1861 and in 1865 Mr. Chandler married a second time to Helen M. Ewing, the daughter of Rev. Young Ewing. They became the parents of five children: Charles H., Addie D., Lulu E., Lillie and James E. Chandler. Mr. Chandler enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1862 and served mostly in the commissary department until the close. Mr. Chandler during his life had been a teacher, farmer and merchant in and near Evansville, Washington County, Arkansas. He died November 10, 1914. [Rootsweb.Ancestry.com]........James M. Chandler, merchant at Evansville, Ark., is the son of Jacob and

Elizabeth (Reeder) Chandler. The father was born in Kentucky in 1793, and

when a child moved with his parents to Tennessee, where he married Miss

Reeder. About 1825 he and his family moved west of the Mississippi River,

locating in the territory now occupied by the Choctaws, but two years later they

moved in the vicinity of Evansville, where the father died in 1876. He was a

farmer all his life, a Democrat in politics, and for many years was justice of the

peace. The mother died when quite young (1836), and was but thirty-six years

of age. Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Their

family consisted of eight children, six now living. The youngest son, and the

subject of this sketch, was rearPd a farmer boy, and received his education in

the subscription school, also at Cane Hill College. At the age of eighteen he

began teaching in the Cherokee Nation at $331; per month, but thinking that

he could not rise in the profession he hired as clerk in a store for $12 per month.

After working for his employer until almost as much was due him as the stock

was worth, he and a partner, N. B. Dunhurg, took the stock in 1853 and be1?an

merchandising at Dutch Mills. Soon after he moved to Wilsonville, one and a

half miles north of Evansville, and here carried on farming in connection with

merchandising. In 1856 he married Miss Margaret L. Morrow, daughter of

Rev. George Morrow, and to them was born one son, William M. Mrs. Chandler

died in 1861, and four years later Mr. Chandler married Miss Helen M.,

daughter of Rev. Young Ewing. This union resulted in the birth of five children:

Charles H., Addie D., Lulu E., Lillie and James E. In 1862 Mr. Chandler

enlisted in the Confederate army, and served in the commissary department

most of the time until the close of the war. In 1867 he opened a store in Evansville,

and has operated the same ever since. He was also postmaster at Evansville

for five years, is a Democrat in politics, and he and wife are members of

the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He owns 100 acres of land, a good

store, and has made it all by his own industry.