Guide to the Cleaveland-Chandler Family Papers, 1803-1937, undated
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Cleaveland-Chandler Family Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
Parker Cleaveland, a scientist and long-time member of Bowdoin's faculty, was born on January 15, 1780, in Rowley, Massachusetts. He was professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and natural philosophy (1805-1858), librarian and on the faculty of the Medical School of Maine, and author of An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology(1816), the first major American mineralogical textbook. Cleaveland died in Brunswick, Maine, on October 15, 1858.
Cleaveland's son, James Bowdoin Cleaveland (1809-1854, Bowdoin 1828) was a lawyer in Gray (1833-1836) and Passadumkeag, Maine (1836-1854), as well as a member of the Maine Legislature (1851-1852). Another son, John Appleton Cleaveland (1819-1873; Bowdoin 1840), was a businessman in Brunswick and Boston, and a clerk at the U. S. Treasury in Boston (1862-1873). Cleaveland's daughter, Martha Ann Bush Cleaveland, married Peleg Whitman Chandler (1816-1889, Bowdoin 1834), a Boston lawyer (1837-1889), member of the Massachusetts Legislature (1845-1847) and the Massachusetts Council (1853), and a Bowdoin trustee (1871-1889).
The collection contains family correspondence (1803-1937), documents (1813-1878), memoirs and diaries, photographs, and receipts (1849-1884), together with a storekeeper's ledger (1844-1847) and financial records kept by members of the family. Principal correspondents include Parker Cleaveland; James Bowdoin Cleaveland; Martha Ann Bush Cleaveland Chandler (1812-1881); Peleg Whitman Chandler; and Horace Parker Chandler (b. 1842), who was a notary public, magistrate, and real estate businessman in Boston, Massachusetts.
For related materials, please see the Parker Cleaveland Collection (M34).
This series contains correspondence to and from members of the Cleaveland and Chandler families. Correspondents include Parker Cleaveland, James Bowdoin Cleaveland, Martha Ann Bush Cleaveland Chandler, Peleg Whitman Chandler and Horace Parker Chandler.
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1803-1838
1839-1931
post 1931
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Scrapbooks of articles concerning and obituaries of Peleg W. Chandler, a diary of Helen C. Weld, essays by Grace Chandler, unidentified photographs and printed ephemera, and documents relating to family members.
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Diary: Martha Chandler, 1860 Mar 31 - Oct 16
Diary: Helen C. Weld?, Christmas 1895 - 1896 Jul 4
Documents
Ephemera
Essays: Grace Chandler 1887 Oct - 1888 Jun
Family information
Memoir: Peleg W. Chandler (from Mass. Historical Society; incomplete, electrostatic copy)
Photographs: miscellaneous
Scrapbook: "H.P.C. [Horace Parker Chandler] Personal" - mainly newspaper clippings, some indexed by title, 1876-1908
Scrapbooks: Horace Chandler, compiler - newspaper clippings relating to business and real estate notices in Boston and Chicago, 1872-1878
Scrapbook: newspaper articles concerning Peleg W. Chandler
Scrapbook: newspaper obituaries of Peleg W. Chandler, 1889
This series contains financial records of the Chandler family, including a storekeeper's ledger, a balance book, investment records, bank records, receipts, and account books.
There are also P. W. Chandler financial records in the Parker Cleaveland Collection: Personal and Financial Records (M34.4), specifically in the folder that includes the Cleaveland House, 1872-1873.
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Esther Chandler: Account book, 1846 Feb - 1848 Nov
Grace Chandler: Balance book, 1908 Jan - 1910 Jan; investment records 1908 Jan - 1925 Nov
Grace Chandler: Bank records, 1931
Peleg W. Chandler: Account book, 1870 Oct 18 - 1871 May 10
Peleg W. Chandler: Account book, 1882 Sep - Oct
Peleg W. Chandler: Bank book, 1857 Jan - Jun
Peleg W. Chandler: Checkbook
Peleg W. Chandler: Petty cash book, 1873 - 1876
Peleg W. Chandler: Receipts, 1832 - 1881
Peleg W. Chandler: Receipts, 1882
Peleg W. Chandler: Receipts, 1883-1888
John Appleton Cleaveland: Business ledger, 1844 Nov 4 - 1847 Jan 29