Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Warren County.

REV. JAMES CHANDLER, a minister of the Methodist Protestant Church, was 
born in Wilson County, Tenn., in 1830.  He is a son of Rev. Jordan and 
Elizabeth L. (Avery) Chandler, and of English descent.  Jordan Chandler 
was born in one of the Carolinas in 1797, and his wife the same year in 
Tennessee.  Rev. J. S. Chandler was reared on the farm and attended the 
country schools.  He also attended Suwanee Academy in Wilson County, 
Tenn.  For several yers in his early manhood he clerked in a dry goods 
store.  In 1842 he united with the Methodist Protestant Church; was 
licensed to preach in 1853, and was first stationed on Union Circuit, 
lying principally in Bedford County, Tenn.  From 1853 until the present 
time he has been in active ministry.  He was ordained as elder in 1856.  
The marriage of Rev. Mr. Chandler took place in 1858, with Amanthis 
Harreld, by whom he had one son, Thomas B.  Mrs. Chandler died in 1863, 
and in 1865 he married Ophelia Hines, of Warren County, Ky.  To this 
union eight children wre born as follows:  William M. (deceased), Virgil 
L., O, Myrtle, Mary O., James A., Elizabeth F., Robert R. and Ada C. 
(born July 3,1885).  In 1882 Mr. Chandler came to Bowling Green, and 
here he has since resided.  In 1885, in partnership with Prof. Williams, 
he established the Bowling Green Steam Laundry.  He is a Mason and a 
highly respected citizen.

Chandler Avery Harreld Hines Smith
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Wilson-TN NC SC Bedford-TN

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