An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company,
Spokane, WA. 1905, pages 346-347

FRANK CHANDLER is a very active and progressive business man as will be noticed
in perusing a review of his life. He is one of the wealthy and leading land
owners of Wasco county and resides at Hood River. He was born in Iowa, on
September 23, 1850. His father, David M. Chandler, was born at St. Catherines,
Canada, whither his parents moved from New York, where they were born. His
father, the grandfather of our subject, was a wagonmaker by trade. He had
several hundred acres of land in Canada and also was engaged in flour milling
and various other enterprises. During the rebellion there he was colonel of the
militia on the side of the British, later he joined the rebels. He was taken
prisoner by the government officers and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and
quartered. Owing to Masonic influence, his sentence was afterward commuted to
banishment to Van Diemen's land. Through the influence of a brother Mason, who
was a captain of a vessel, he was taken thence and afterwards brought to the
United States and lived the balance of his days in Jackson county, Iowa. His
name was Samuel C. Chandler. Our subject's father was fourteen years of age then
and was put in prison, but the government later decided he was too young to have
criminally participated in the rebellion and was released and ordered out of the
country. With his mother and the rest of the children, eleven, they all came to
Iowa where the father joined them. There he was reared and educated and lived.
His brother, Samuel C., was for many years professor of Geology in Columbia
College and presented the famous Chandler collection to that institution. He was
a prominent writer on geological and theological questions. Our subject's father
died in 1884. He had married Eliza Goodenough, a native of New York and from a
very prominent colonial family. The Chandler family as well as the Goodenough
family were all very prominent people during colonial days and participated in
all the wars connected with the colonies and the United States. Some of the
ancestors came to this country on the Mayflower. The mother of our subject died
when he was three years of age and then he was raised by his step-mother and
received a good education from the district schools, the academy and the
business college. After that, he worked on his uncle's farm then took a position
as steamboat agent in Lyons, Iowa, and two years later, kept books in various
places then went on the road as traveling salesman for Durands and Company,
wholesale grocers of Chicago. Later, we find him in a general merchandise
business in western Iowa, whence he moved to Bancroft, Nebraska and sold out.
After that, he was in the drug business in Omaha and finally sold to M.B. Howell
and went on the road for D.M. Steel, a wholesale grocer of Omaha. Finally, at 2
p. m. one October day, he resigned his position for this house and at 6 a. m.,
on the same day took the train for Oregon. He was engaged with Wadhams & Company
of Portland then located a farm in the Hood River valley and a year later
resigned the same and went on the road again for Liggitt and Meyers a large
tobacco house. He was division manager later, for the Wetmore Tobacco Company,
handling Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Washington, Arizona and Colorado.
Finally, in 1902, Mr. Chandler retired from the road and settled down in Hood
River and purchased a fine home on the hill. He sold his farm for eleven
thousand dollars and had in the meantime, purchased four hundred acres more of
very fine fruit and grain land. One hundred acres are in cultivation and the
balance is all tillable. He has three separate farms and has a bearing orchard
of over twenty-five acres. He personally supervises the places he owns and is a
very active and energetic man.      

On April 13, 1880, at Jefferson, Iowa, Mr. Chandler married Mrs. Mary E., the
daughter of Arza T. Lyons. She was born in Whithall, New York, and her father
was a native of the same state. The family was a prominent American one and the
father at the time of his death in 1905 was a large paint manufacturer. Mr.
Chandler has one brother living, Delos B. Mrs. Chandler has one sister, Eliza
Davis. To Mr. and Mrs. Chandler, one child has been born, William O. Our subject
is a member of the A.F. & A.M., and a good substantial Republican.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2005 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. 
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.