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- Isaac Harrison Chandler came from New York to Hartland, Huron Co, with his parents in 1836. He started as a lumberman, partly in Michigan. He bought a sawmill built in 1869, the second one to be built in Hartland township. [He was already owner of a sawmill in Hartland in 1860.] This he operated until 1874 when the boiler burst, killing his eldest son Homer at the age of about 20, and narrowly escaping himself. He rebuilt the mill in 1876, and it had been in partial operation ever since, [as late as 1894]. In 1863 he bought a farm of 60 acres to which he moved in 1866 and where he was still living in 1894. [This must have been in Norwalk where he was enumerated in 1870 and 1880.] (HLC)
Harrison Chandler was 19 in the 1850 census of Clarksfield, Huron Co, the eldest child at home with Ebenezer H. and Lydia Chandler.
In 1860, I. Harrison Chandler (the initial looking more like a J. than an I.) was in Hartland, a sawmill owner with $1000 in real estate and $500 in personal property. He was 32, Catherine was 30, and their sons were "Homer" 6, Charles 5, Lewis 3, and Frank 6 months old. With them was Sally A. Pancost 18, a sister of Lewis Pancost who married Catharine's sister Mary (#60-10).
The Chandlers had moved to Norwalk by 1870. Isaac was 40, a sawyer with $3000 and $800 in property. Kate was 37, and at home were Harrison 16, Charles 14, Lewis 12, and Hamilton 3 years old.
The boiler had killed Homer (called Homer Eugene on gs) before the 1880 census of Medina, Norwalk Tp, when I. H. Chandler was 49, now a farmer, and Catherine was 45. With them still were Lewis 23, Hamilton 13, and Clarence 10, and Catherine's mother, widow Lorancy Rumsey aged 73. They also had an English domestic servant.
The obituary for Catharine's brother, Loren W. Rumsey who died in 1899, gave among his survivors his sister, Mrs. Kate Chandler of Norwalk, and his nephews Lewis C. Chandler of Fitchville, Fred H. Chandler of Bronson, C. C. Chandler of Norwalk, and E. H. [shd be C.H.?] Chandler of Fairfield.
This "E.H." is out of sequence for Charles H., the only other surviving son of Catharine, and perhaps disproves the identification of the Charles H. found in Cleveland in 1900 who was 2-3 years too young. He was in the 8th Ward, at 146 Holmden St, a laundryman instead of a bookkeeper there as reported by HLC. He was 42 and his wife Ida was 40, married 21 years. (Charles had not been with his family in 1880.) Ida had had two children, but only one was living - Angela 14, named for her grandmother, Angeline Smith, who was with them. I have found no other Charles that could be considered for this family, but do not know that he ever married.
In 1900, I. H. Chandler was still in Norwalk and a farmer at the age of 69. He and Catherine D. had been married 47 years. She was 66, and 3 of her 7 children were no longer living, (i.e. Harrison/Homer, Frank and Clara May). They had a young farm laborer working for them.
Next door was C. C. Chandler 29, also a farmer, married 8 years to Jennie N. who was 33. Their children were Homer E. 7, Ruby S. 4 and Burton H. 2.
Fred H. Chandler was in Bronson in 1900, a farmer aged 32, married 13 years to Laura A. who was 33, born in Ohio of German parents. They had Catharine M. 12 and Lorana F. 8.
Lewis C. Chandler was in Fitchville, another farmer. He was 42, his wife Emma J. was 39, and they had been married 19 years. Their three children were Bertha M. 16, Ralph H. 15 and Harry 11.
The obituary for Isaac H. Chandler (abstracted from one loaned by Frank W. Rumsey) gave his place of birth, said he married Catherine D. Rumsey of New London in 1853, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
It was Clarence Chandler's daughter, Mrs. Ruby Arnold of Norwalk, who copied the gravestones of her great-grandparents, George P. Rumsey and his wife, for Frank W. Rumsey. [2]
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1830 - 1919 (88 years)
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