WILLIAM M. CHANDLER was born in Person County, N. C., January 16, 1829. He is of English descent and the son of Washington and Letha (Morrow) Chandler. The ancestors of subject were all natives of North Carolina. His father was born in 1803 and his mother in 1806. The Chandler family landed in Hopkins County, Ky., January 25, 1829, after a lengthy trip from North Carolina. When subject attained his majority, he began farming. In 1850 he came to what was then Henderson (now Webster) County. For thirty-three years he was a tiller of the soil. In 1882 he came to Sebree and engaged in the milling business, which he still continues. He purchased what is known as the Singer Mill, which is one of the best in the county. It has a capacity of about twenty barrels of flour and will grind 150 bushels of corn per day; it is in good running order and is worth $5,000. Mr. Chandler was married in 1849, to Miss Eliza J. Parker, by whom he had eight children, four of whom are living. Mrs. Chandler died in 1867, and the following year Mr. Chandler married Miss Bettie Isbell, and to this union have been born six children, two of whom survive. Mr. Chandler is a Democrat, and he and wife are members of the Regular Baptist Church, of which he has been a member for thirty-three years.
Source: J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky. A History of the State. Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL: Battey, 1885. Page 1028.