JAMES S. CHANDLER, Montfort; son of Clayborn and Mary J. Chandler; father was born in Boone Co., Ky.; he removed to Missouri, where he married; he came to Grant Co. with his family in the fall of 1844, and located at Potosi, where he lived for some time, and then returned to Missouri; returned to Wisconsin with his family in 1847, and settled in the town of Highland, Iowa Co., where he lived two years, and then settled in the town of Wingville; he was engaged in the mercantile business in Montfort from 1850 until 1856, then removed to Minnesota; was absent about three years, when he returned to Grant Co.; he died at Boscobel in 1863; James S. was born in Lewis Co., Mo., in 1835; in 1850, when only 15 years of age, he went by the overland route to California; was absent about three years. He was married to Margaret A. Bell, a daughter of Edward Bell; she was born in Grant Co.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.