This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/iUI.2ACIB/2008.1 Message Board Post: Hi Gene, As far as I know I have no connection to your husband's family, and I know I have no knowledge of them. So you probably have better information than I on this. The census, in which I put very little faith, did list Oscar Edson Chandler's birthplace as NY. In Phoenix, S. Whitney,_The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations : being an attempt to trace the descendants, as well in the female as the male lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878 : to which is prefixed some account of the Whitneys of England_(New York: Priv. print., 1878) there is information, naturally without sources, on this line. For what it is worth, it gives the birthplace of Oscar Edson Chandler as Leon, NY. (page 1644) It goes on to say he was married to Sarah Clevenger, daughter of Eli and Elizabeth (Vaughn) Clevenger on 20 June 1864 by "Esquire Harris of Putnam Co. Ohio." It says they were living at Pacific Junction Iowa, Feb. 1877. What I recall from the census was that Oscar had chi! ldren born in three or so states, and I believe I remember Iowa was one. Oscar is one of the children listed of Truman Adams Chandler and Ruth Maria Gillet. of them (page 797) it says Truman was b. Camillus, NY 18 May, 1808 and Ruth, dau. of Phylarmon and Electra (Newell) Gillet of Tinmoth, VT at East Hamburgh, NY 2 Feb., 1838. She was born Nov. 19, 1819. It says as of 1877 they were at Delphos, Ohio. Truman is said to be the son of Absalom Chandler and Polly Maria Wood. Absalom is said to have been born 14 Oct, 1776 at Goshen, NY and to have married Polly in 1807 at Camillus. It says they settled in Canada, but returned to Buffalo when the War of 1812 broke out and he served in the U S Army through the war. He's said to be the son of Abram, and Sarah Chandler, of whom no more information is given. Polly is said to be the dau. of Nathan and Zilpha (Sprague) Wood.