The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-27
NUMBER l3.
Obituary..

CHANDLER in Montpelier, Tues
day, March 10, Charles Marcellus Chandler
MD, in the sixty-second year OF his life.
DR.. Chandler, son of DR.. Charles b. Chand-
Ter and his wife, Nancy Atherton Chandler,
was born in Tunbridge, Vt, July /, 1927.
In the common schools of Tunb.idge and
the academies at Royalton, Chelsea and
Bradford he acquired his early education
After some five years service in country
stores and four years experience in teach
ing, he began in March, 1850, the study of
medicine with his father, and in 1854 re.
ceived from Harvard University the degree
OF doctor OF medicine. In the me year he
settled at South Strafford, VT, where for
SIX years he practiced his profession with
marked degree OF success. May 10, 1860, at
Peeksklll, n. Y, he married Abigail jose
phine Hazen, daughter of Noah b. and
Freedom Norton Hazen, who survives him.
lie gave up his practice at Strafford to ioin
his father, and in May, 1860, they moved to
Montpelier. Here DR.. Chandler has since
resided and here his children, Charles r.
Chandler, NJ D., and Miss Anna j. Chandler,
We're born. In the civil war he was com
missioned surgeon Of the Sixth Vermont
Regiment of Volunteers. For several
months ending in September, 1864, he was
acting assistant surgeon on the steamer
y" State of Maine" engaged in removing the
sick and wounded from the field to the
hospitals. He was afterward, till it was
closed in the fall of 1865, a surgeon at
Sloan United States General Hospital at
Montpelier, resumng thereafter his prac-
tice at the latter place He has filed the
various offices in the Vermont State Medi-
cal Society, becoming its president in 1873.
In the published transactions of the society
some OF his writings may be found. Dur
ing many years he was examining surgeon
for pensions, and in the course of his
practice has given instruction in medicine
to many students. The demand for his
ga1 nd L.,
otherwise extended practi e. That amid
so many and so exacting labors as attend
the practice of country physician whose
skill and success and readiness to carry re-
lief have won the popular confidence, the
lamp OF life held out to burn so long, is
evidence of inherited vital powers of un-
common strength. In his practice DR..
Chandler was distinguished by untiring de-
votlon to his patients and readiness to re-
spond to demands for his professional serv-
ices that was limited by no consideration
OF persons or conditions, or regard for his
individual convenience, health or strength.
Had he obeyed the admOnitions of nature
and restricted his practice to the precincts
OF ms office year or more ago, it is prob
able that his obituary notice would not have
been written for many years. Often ne has
responded to the calls of the sick when
unquestionably the sick were better able to
come to him. He was an intelligent and
discriminating practitioner. He paid close
attention to the results of experiments in
practice, and resolutely discarded errors in
theory. The community has lost physi-
clan on whose skill and good sense, devo-
tion, faithfuness and kindness of heart it
has long and confidently relied. DR..
Chandler was liberal-minded and public
spirited man-in the best sense of the term
a good citizen. In his family and social re-
lations he was kind, affectionate, indulgent
and true. He was modest, unostentatious
AMI lnt l,,lxr in, t. rl.;,
munity will henceforth miss a quiet and
grateful presence.