Person:John Chandler (3)

John Eddy Chandler
d.10 Jan 1894 India
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] John Eddy Chandler
Gender Male
Birth[3] 12 Jun 1817 North Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, United States
Other? 1844 Yale CollegeAttended
Graduation? 1846 Lane Theological Seminary Cincinnati
Marriage 10 Sep 1846 to Charlotte Maria Hopkins
Other? 1870 MA Yale UniversityHonorary Degree
Death? 10 Jan 1894 India

"He was a descendant of William and Annais Chandler who came from Bishop-Stortford in Hertford County, England, and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1637. He spent three years at Yale in the class of 1844; then three years at Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, graduating in 1846. With his wife he sailed from Boston, a missionary to India, returning in 1861. He was in India again, 1863 to 1874, also from 1876 to 1890. After his wife's death in the United States, 1891, he returned to India and lived with his son John until his death in 1894." "At the Commencement in New Haven, in 1870 when his son John received his B.A. Yale gave him an honorary M.A." SOURCE: The Descendents of John Eddy Chandler and Charlotte Maria Hopkins Edited by Edward H. Chandler of Woodstock Connecticut 1944

References
  1. Charles C McClaughry. Geneology of the Mac Claughry Family by Charles C McClaughry. (Anamosa Iowa 1913)
    404.
  2. Edward H. Chandler. The Descendents of John Eddy and Charlotte Chandler. (Woodstock, Conn., 1944)
    2.

    b. June 12, 1817, North Woodstock, Conn.
    father: John Chandler.
    b. June 7, 1779; d. Feb. 27, 1852.
    mother: Deborah Eddy.
    b.Jan. 2, 1784; d. Nov. 21, 1855

    He was a descendant of William and Annis Chandler who came from Bishop-Stortford in Hertford County, England, and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1637. He spent three years at Yale in the class of 1844; then three years at Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, graduating in 1846. With his wife he sailed from Boston, a missionary to India, Nov. 19, 1846, returning in 1861. He was in India again, 1863 to 1874, also from 1876 to 1890. After his wife's death in the United States, 1891, he returned to India and lived with his son John until his death in 1894.
    ·At the Commencement in New Haven, in 1870 when his son John received his B.A., Yale gave him an honorary M.A.

  3. Barbour, Lucius Barnes, and Newton Case Brainard. Vital Records of Woodstock, 1686-1854. (Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1914)
    p.264.

    "John Eddy son of John Chandler 2d & Deborah his wife Born June 12th 1817"