DEATH OF GEN, ADONIRAM CHANDLER, 



Late Corresponding Secretary and Agent of the American Institute. 



A special meeting of the members of the American Institute 

 was held on Monday, October 16, 1854, at 2 o'clock P. M., for 

 the purpose of making a suitable expression of the leelings of 

 the members on this melancholy occasion. 



Prof Jas. Renwick alluded in feeling terras to the death of 

 General Chandler, whose demise took place on Saturday, October 

 14, at 3 o'clock A. M., in the 62d year of his age, and moved the 

 adoption of the following resolutions. The resolutions were 

 seconded by Judge Meigs, who remarked that Judge Chandler 

 had long been a prominent and useful member of our commu- 

 nity. During the war of 1812, he went to the lines and offered 

 himself as a volunteer; was at the battle of Queenstown, and sig- 

 nalized himself in that and other engagements during the war. 

 He has, at different times, been president of the Mechanic's So- 

 cietyj and Director of the Mechanic's Bank, and several other 

 public institutions, was a member of the Assembly of the State 

 of New- York, and for many years Commissary General of the 

 State. From the first formation of the American Institute, he has 

 been one of its most active members, and was for a long time 

 vice-president of the institution. 



Resolved^ That the members attend his funeral, to testify by 

 this, their sense of his services to the Institute. The General has 

 long been one of its fathers, and no one among us has been more 

 fond of it. He certainly loved it as one of his own children. He 

 was always ardent in every effort made by it to secure the inde- 

 pendence of our country, by courage in battle and unswerving 

 labors in the operations of this Institute. He began with it when 



