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Jasper J. Chandler

By close attention to the business affairs of life, and by earnest and persistent endeavor, coupled with strict integrity, Mr. Chandler has become a well-to-do planter of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana He began life for himself with no capital whatever, with the exception of a pair of ponies, but is now in independent circumstances, and upon his valuable and well-improved plantation of 520 acres, he has just completed the erection of a tine steam cotton gin.

He was born in Calhoun County, Louisiana, in 1851, being the fourth in a family of ten children, their names being as follows: Newton (now a resident of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana), Frances (wife of M. Baxter, also of Lincoln Parish), Reuben (who died at the age of eighteen years), Jasper J. (the subject of this biography), Sarah (wife of Joel Clay, of Lincoln Parish), Polly (widow of John Stewart), Susanna (wife of J. Moffett, of Winn Parish, Louisiana), Maria (wife of J. Ham mick), and Venola (wife of Dr. Tarquin), the last two being residents of Lincoln Parish. The father and mother of this family were Stephen and Nancy (Warren) Chandler, both of whom were Georgians.

Jasper J. Chandler came to Louisiana with his parents when but nine years of age, and located in Lincoln Parish, where he attained manhood, and where, in 1872, he was married to Miss Maggie Bailey, a daughter of G. Bailey. Of a family of five children born to them, four are now living. Politically Mr. Chandler has always voted the Democratic ticket, thus standing firmly by the principles he has always believed in.

Biographical Sketches| Claiborne Parish

Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, Southern Publishing Company, 1890