Chandler, John
an English clergyman and poet, was born at Witley, in Surrey, June 16,1806. He graduated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1827; became vicar of Witley in 1837, afterwards rural dean, and died at Putney, July 1, 1876. Besides some prose productions, he published translations called Hymns of the Primitive Church (1837), of which several have been inserted in most hymnals..
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Chandler, John (1)
an English minister of the Society of Friends, was born at Great Bardfield, Essex, April 10, 1787. He was a linen-draper by trade, and had but little scholastic education; but he applied himself diligently to study, familiarizing himself with Latin and several of the modern European languages, and general literature. In 1839 he went to the West Indies, under sanction of the Meeting for Sufferings, to relieve the miseries of the emancipated Negroes. During his visit he explored many of the islands. In 1849 he made a second voyage to the West Indies in behalf of the Antislavery Society. In 1850 he visited America. In 1852 he went to Portugal, to present to the queen of that country an address from the Society of Friends on slavery; and in the latter part of the same year he visited Brazil on a similar mission. In 1853 he was sent to America, to present to the governor of each state, and the president of the United States, a declaration from the Yearly Meeting of London on the unrighteousness of slavery. In 1862 he went to Norway as a missionary. He was one of the founders of the Auxiliary Bible Society, and was secretary of the same for fifty years. He died at Springfield, Chelmsford, July 4, 1869. See Annual Monitor, 1870, p. 39.
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Chandler, John (2)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Enfield, Conn., Oct. 16,1797. He was reared a Calvinist; experienced conversion at the age of twenty- four, and immediately joined the Methodists. He received license to preach in 1824, and in the same year united with the Pittsburgh Conference, in which he traveled large circuits for twelve years, and served as presiding elder eight years. In 1844 he entered the Rock River Conference, and labored faithfully until 1865, when he became superannuated, which relation he sustained to the close of his life, at his home in Peoria, Aug. 14, 1873. Mr. Chandler was deeply pious; powerful in prayer and preaching; a prudent, princely leader in Israel. See Minutes of Annual Conferences 1873, p. 147; Simpson, Cyclop. of Methodism, s.v.