Chandler, John (2)

a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Enfield, Conn., Oct. 16,1797. He was reared a Calvinist; experienced conversion at the age of twenty- four, and immediately joined the Methodists. He received license to preach in 1824, and in the same year united with the Pittsburgh Conference, in which he traveled large circuits for twelve years, and served as presiding elder eight years. In 1844 he entered the Rock River Conference, and labored faithfully until 1865, when he became superannuated, which relation he sustained to the close of his life, at his home in Peoria, Aug. 14, 1873. Mr. Chandler was deeply pious; powerful in prayer and preaching; a prudent, princely leader in Israel. See Minutes of Annual Conferences 1873, p. 147; Simpson, Cyclop. of Methodism, s.v.