THE MAIN HOUSE AT THE MARSH FARM, 365 THE LARGE BARN AT THE MARSH FARM, 367 MR. CHANDLER'S RESIDENCE AT WASHINGTON, 369 MR. CHANDLER'S RESIDENCE AT DETROIT, 371 THE STATE CAPITOL OF MICHIGAN, 377 SENATOR CHANDLER DENOUNCING THE EULOGIES UPON JEFF. DAVIS IN THE SENATE CHAMBER AT 3 A. M. OF MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1879, 381 THE GRAND PACIFIC HOTEL AT CHICAGO, 389 PROFILE BUST OF ZACHARIAH CHANDLER--(A sketch from Leonard W. Volk's Plaster Cast), 391 THE TRIBUTE OF GEN. U. S. GRANT (_fac-simile_), 393 ZACHARIAH CHANDLER. CHAPTER I. BIRTHPLACE AND ANCESTRY IN NEW ENGLAND. In the valley of the Merrimack, fifty miles northwest from Boston, is the New Hampshire town of Bedford. It is a community of thrifty farms, with striking characteristics, and almost a century and a half of entertaining history. Simplicity of manners and sturdiness of character prevail among its people to-day, and the vigor of the stock of its original settlers, the loftiness of their traditions, and the puritanism of its civilization have made it a nursery of strong men. King Philip's War ended in a Pyrrhic victory for the New England provinces. The subjugation of the savages was only accomplished when one in twenty of the men among the colonists had fallen and a like proportion of their families was houseless, and it left behind it what was in those days a heavy debt. More than half a century elapsed before there was any substantial recognition of the claims of the survivors of that war and their descendants. It was not until 1732, after numerous petitions and prolonged discussion, that "the Great and General Court of Massachusetts" granted land enough for two townships "to the soldiers who had served in King Philip's or the Narragansett War and to their surviving heirs-at-law." This grant was subsequently enlarged to seven townships, as appears from the following record of proceedings in "the Great and General Court or Assembly for His Majestie's Province of the Massachusetts Bay," under date of April 26, 1733: A Petition of a Committee for the Narragansett Soldiers, showing that there are the number of Eight Hundred and Forty Persons entered as officers and soldiers in the late Narragansett War, Praying that there may be such an addition of Land granted to them, as may allow a Tract of six miles Square to each one hundred and twenty men so admitted.