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Harry Chandler was born on May 17, 1864 in Landaff, Grafton, New Hampshire, the eldest child of four born to Moses Knight Chandler and Emma Jane Little Chandler. He spent the first years of his life in Landaff, attending the Blue School, where he graduated from eighth grade. The family then moved to the nearby town of Lisbon, where Harry and his younger brother Fred could go to high school.

Harry entered Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1882. Soon after he was forced to withdraw as the result of a lung hemorrhage caused by his diving into a frozen vat of starch on a dare by a fellow classmate. Following his doctor's advice to head to a warm, healthy climate, he set off on the train for California, where he soon got a job delivering fruit to workmen in the San Fernando Valley.

Joining the Los Angeles Times in 1885 as a clerk in the circulation department, he began to buy up the delivery routes of the other papers in town, and established his own delivery and collections business. He soon was making more that the publishers of the papers.

Marrying a fellow Times worker's sister, Magdalena Schlador, on February 6, 1888, he moved to a home on Rosas Street. They had two daughters, Francesca, born April 7, 1890 and May, born July 24, 1892. Magdalena, who Harry called May, died two weeks later of puerperal fever on August 4, 1892 at the age of twenty nine.

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