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JOSEPH FOUNTAIN CHANDLER
JOSEPH FOUNTAIN CHANDLER, Principal of the Franklin School
of Oakland was born near McLanesville, Macon County Missouri, September 11,
1850, a son of William P. and Eleanor R. (Butler) Chandler,
both natives of Kentucky. The
mother born February 15, 1830, a daughter of Joseph D. Butler, a soldier of the
war of 1812, and his wife, Eleanor Hayden, died May 26, 1858. The father born
in Augusta Kentucky, November 21, 1821, a son of William and Hester Chandler is
living.
His
father enlisted in the State militia and served the Union
in the Civil War and suffered considerable loss of stock, plundered by both parties.
The
children of William P.and Eleanor R. Chandler are: Henry Adoulphua, born
September 30, 1849, now a Physician at McFall, Missouri, a graduate of the
Missouri Medical College and the Bellevue Hospital College of New York: J. F.
the subject of this sketch; Hester Ellen, born June 26, 1854, now the wife of
John Stuck, a builder of Jacksonville, Missouri, has one child, Franklin, born
about 1879; Laura Jane, born July 26, 1856, deceased August 6, 1888, unmarried.
Grandfather
William Chandler was a soldier in the Revolution, and a member of the Virginia
family of that name, long established there, living to an advanced age. Two
children survived him: William P., father of our subject, and Henry, who died
comparatively young, was a Captain and owner of a
steamboat in the New Orleans trade,
dying of yellow fever at the age of thirty-five in 1858, Unmarried.
J.
F. the subject of this sketch was educated in the Public Schools of his birth
place, and was graduated from the State normal School, Kirksville,
Missouri, in 1876. The father owned a large
stock farm chiefly. In early life he had been a tanner at McLanesville about
1858, retired from that pursuit and bought a large tract of land.
J.F.
graduated from Kirksville in 1878,
with the degree of Master of Arts, having formerly obtained from that
institution during his course Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts in 1876.
Meanwhile, in 1876, he took charge as Principal of the graded schools of Monroe
City, Missouri, remaining two
years, and in 1878 edited the Monroe City News, a weekly paper. In 1878 he came
to California, arriving in Amador county in July, 1878, obtaining charge of the
graded schools in Sutter Creek eight years, four of which he was Superintendent
of the Schools of Amador county. He came to Oakland
November 1, 1887, being elected to take charge of the Franklin
School one of the largest grammar
schools of this city.
Mr.
Chandler joined the Masonic fraternity in Sutter Creek, and is now of Oakland Commander,
No. 11, K. T., of which he was Recorder, having Previously filled the chairs in
the blue lodge and chapter.
Transcribed by Kim Buck.
Source: "The Bay of San
Francisco," Vol. 2, Page
609, Lewis Publishing Co,
1892.
© 2006 Kim Buck.
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