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Person
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Chandler, Amos Henry
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Dates of existence
1837-1919
History
Amos Henry Chandler was born in Dorchester, Westmorland County, New Brunswick on 8 August 1837. He was the son of Edward Barron Chandler (1800-1880) and Phoebe Walker (Millidge) Chandler (1802-1889). He attended the Fredericton Grammar School and the Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy for two terms in 1854. He studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and practice in small communities throughout New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. He jointly published a volume of poetry entitled “Lyrics, songs and sonnets” with Rev. Charles Pelham Mulvany in Toronto in May of 1880. His poems appeared frequently in local papers, often under the pseudonym “Sylvius.” He married Elspeth Russell Kirk (1838-1870) of Saint John, New Brunswick. After her death, he married Miss C.E. Kirk. He had one child from the second marriage: Phoebe Helen Charlotte Chandler ([ca 1867]-1946). He died on 3 May 1919.