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CHANDLER, J. T., M. D., Biography

J. T. Chandler, M. D., Oxford, Miss., a leading physician and prosperous druggist of Lafayette county, was born in South Carolina in 1831, and is the eldest child of T. W. and Julia (Wiley) Chandler, natives of North Carolina. The paternal grandfather, Josiah Chandler, removed from Virginia to North Carolina; he was of English descent, and the maternal ancestors were of Scotch extraction. Dr. Chandler was educated in the University of Oxford, and in 1859 he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsvlvania at Philadelphia; he was graduated in the class of 1801, and came at once to Lafayette county. There he entered the Confederate army in company 13, First Mississippi cavalry as lieutenant; he assisted in recruiting the company, and the second year was made captain; he served in this position one year, and was then wounded. He was disabled six months, during which time he resigned. In March, 1808, he entered the hospital at Port Hudson as surgeon, and had been there but a short time until the surrender of that point. He went to New Orleans with the sick, returning in October. He was then made medical inspector of the staff of Gen. Stephen Lee, a position he tilled for six months. At the end of that time he was appointed surgeon of the Eighteenth Mississippi cavalry, and was filling this position at the close of the war. After the surrender he came to Oxford and engaged in professional work; he has won a large and enthusiastic patronage. In 1876 he opened a drug store, where he carries a full stock of drugs, paints, oils and toilet articles. Dr. Chandler was united in marriage in December, 1868, to Miss Lulie N. Thompson, daughter of William Thompson. Seven children have been born to this union; Julia, L. M. , Annie J., Lulie May, Wiley, T. W. (who died at the age of nineteen years in April, 1889), and an infant unnamed. The Doctor is a member of the Masonic order, a Knight of Honor, and belongs to the A. O. U. W. He owns five hundred acres of land, one hundred and fifty of which are in a high state of cultivation. The place is well improved, and the remaining portion of the land is of best quality. He also owns his residence. [Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, Chicago, The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1891.]