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Amos Henry Chandler
1837-1919

Amos Henry Chandler, MD, was born on 8 August 1837 in Dorchester, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, and died on 23 May 1919 at his daughter’s home in Montreal, Quebec. In his younger years, Amos Chandler attended the Fredericton Grammar School and then Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy for two terms in 1854. He earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in March 1857 and practiced medicine in small communities in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Between the 1860s and 1880s, Chandler practiced medicine in Moncton and by 1889, had returned to Dorchester. In his free time, Chandler wrote poetry, which he often published in newspapers such as Moncton’s Daily Times, Halifax’s Daily Echo, and New York’s Standard Magazine. He wrote under the pseudonym “Sylvius” or “A.H.C.” In 1880, Chandler partnered with Rev. Charles Pelham Mulvany (1835–1885), an Irish clergyman and author specializing in Canadian history, to jointly publish Lyrics, Songs and Sonnets.

 

Source

Foster, Jamie. "Amos Henry Chandler." New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, Fall 2018. Accessed 21 April 2023.

 

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

Moncton

Archival Material

  • Location
    Mount Allison University Archives
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    Retrieval Number
    Fonds 119
    Date Range of Material
    1856-1918
    Extent

    12 cm of textual records

    Scope and Content Note

    Fonds consists of personal papers belonging to A.H. Chandler, including his published and unpublished poems, correspondence and criticisms; letters, manuscript stories and a poem by Silas T. Rand; a letter by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts with a signed and inscribed copy of his publication "Later Poems"; printed works of other writers; and a letter to Edward Baron Chandler from Charles W. Upham, Salem, Massachusetts, 1869.

  • Location
    Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
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    Retrieval Number
    MC1939
    Date Range of Material
    1880-1930
    Extent

    Approx. 1 m of textual records, 1 reel of microfilm (F10555), and photographs

    Scope and Content Note

    This fonds consists primarily of textual records that shed light on the activites of several members of the Chandler and Racey families.

Headshot of Amos Henry Chandler

Amos Henry Chandler

Credit

New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, 2018. Accessed 21 April 2023.

See the New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia entry.

Bibliography Items

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Chandler, Amos H. and Mulvany, Charles P. Lyrics, Songs and Sonnets. Toronto, ON: Hunter, Rose & Co, 1880, 232 pp.. [ book ]
Collection(s): NB Authors' Archival Papers project