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CHANDLER, Abiel, philanthropist, born in Concord, New Hampshire, 26 February, 1777; died in Walpole, N. It., 22 March, 1851. He was occupied in agricultural labors until twenty-one years of age, and subsequently attended Harvard, where he was graduated in 1806. From this time until 1817 he was a teacher in Salem and Newburyport. He was afterward engaged for many years in business in Boston as the head of the firm of Chandler, Howard & county, from which he retired in 1845 with a fortune. He bequeathed $50,000 to establish a scientific school in connection with Dartmouth College, $1,600 for the establishment of a scientific agricultural school, and the remainder of his estate to the New Hampshire asylum for the insane.
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