page_title: John Winthrop Chanler
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: John Winthrop Chanler / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Title:Mrs. John Winthrop Chanler (Margaret Astor Ward). Author/Artist:Baker, George Augustus, 1821-1880 Creation Date:1841 Description:Graphic reproduction(s) with documentation of a painting. 30 x 25 in. oil on canvas. Provenance:(f) Rear Admiral Hubert Winthrop Chanler, "Sweet Briar Farm," Geneseo, New York (died 1974). Current Repository:unlocated.
context_page_description: John Winthrop Chanler was a prominent New York lawyer and a U.S. Representative from New York. He was a member of the Dudley–Winthrop family and married Margaret Astor Ward, a member of the Astor family.
context_section_description: In 1851, Chanler married Margaret Astor "Maddie" Ward, whose parents were Samuel Cutler Ward and Emily Astor of the Astor family. She was also a granddaughter of Samuel Ward III and William Backhouse Astor Sr. as well as a great-granddaughter of Samuel Ward Jr., John Jacob Astor, and John Armstrong Jr. Together, John and Margaret had eleven children:
  John Armstrong "Archie" Chanler (1862–1935), who married and later divorced novelist Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy (1863–1945).
  Winthrop Astor "Wintie" Chanler (1863–1926), who married Margaret Louisa "Daisy" Terry (1862–1952) in 1886.
  Emily Astor Chanler (1864–1872) who died of scarlet fever
  Elizabeth Astor Winthrop Chanler (1866–1937), who married John Jay Chapman (1862–1933) in 1899.
  William Astor "Willie" Chanler (1867–1934), a politician, soldier, and explorer who married Beatrice "Minnie" Ashley (1878–1946)
  Marion Ward Chanler (1868–1883)
  Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (1869–1942), a politician who married Alice Chamberlain (1868–1955) in 1890. After their divorce, he married Julia Lynch Olin (1882–1961) in 1921.
  Margaret Livingston Chanler (1870–1963), who served as a nurse with the American Red Cross during the Spanish–American War and who married Richard Aldrich (1863–1937) in 1906.
  Robert Winthrop Chanler (1872–1930), an artist who married Julia Remington (1872–1936). After their divorce in 1907, he married Natalina "Lina" Cavalieri (1874–1944)
  Alida Beekman Chanler (1873–1969), who married Christopher Temple Emmet (1868–1957).
  Egerton White Chanler (1874–1882), who died of a brain tumor
  Margaret died of pneumonia in December 1875 shortly after attending the funeral of William Backhouse Astor Sr. She was buried at Trinity Church Cemetery in New York City. In her will, she left $55,000 (equivalent to $1,280,500 in 2019 dollars) to her husband, $1,000 (equivalent to $23,282 in 2019 dollars) a year to her father, and the rest to be divided among her children.
caption: Margaret Astor Ward
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