Editing William E. Chandler (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Senator William E. Chandler of New Hampshire with parents.jpg|thumb|150px|left|A young William E. Chandler with his parents, Nathan S. Chandler and Mary Chandler]]
William E. Chandler was born in [[Concord, New Hampshire]], to Nathan S. Chandler and Mary Ann (Tucker) Chandler.{{sfn|Paxson|1943|pp=616-617}} William's elder brother, John Chandler, was a successful East India merchant, and his younger brother George Chandler, an attorney who served as a major during the Civil War.<ref name="books.google.com">John Badger Clarke, [https://books.google.com/books?id=G9gDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA260-IA5 ''Sketches of successful New Hampshire men...''] (J.B. Clarke, 1882) pp. 261-265</ref>

William Chandler attended the common schools, [[Thetford Academy, Vermont|Thetford Academy]] and [[Pembroke Academy]] before attending [[Harvard Law School]], where he began a romantic correspondence with [[Lucy Lambert Hale]], daughter of Senator [[John Parker Hale]].  He graduated in 1854, was admitted to the bar in 1855, and commenced practice in Concord.<ref>''The New England magazine'', Volume 36, [https://books.google.com/books?id=91XhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA261 "What's Doing at Washington"] by David S. Barry, New England Magazine Co., (1907) p. 261 
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In 1859, Chandler married Ann Gilmore, the daughter of New Hampshire Governor [[Joseph A. Gilmore]]. They had one son, [[Lloyd H. Chandler]], who served in the [[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War I]], and retired as a rear admiral. Ann died in 1871.

In 1874, Chandler resumed his romance with Lucy Hale, who had been secretly betrothed in 1865 to [[John Wilkes Booth]], [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s assassin. Chandler and Hale were married in 1874, and in March 1875, their only son, John Parker Hall Chandler, was born.<ref name=Kunhardt>{{cite book|title=Twenty Days|publisher=Newcastle|location=North Hollywood, Calif.|year=1965|pages=178&ndash;179|lccn=62015660|author=Kunhardt, Dorothy and Philip, Jr.}}</ref> Lucy died in 1915.