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You said you were looking for information on this family, but not what information, so
perhaps you already know all this.
Edson appears in the census from 1900 on. In 1900 his birthdate is given as May 1900 and
he seems not to have been named yet as he's listed as "Babe." (That census
was taken in June, so he was a newborn.) There is, as seems always the case,
contradictory information from one census to the next. His father's birthplace is
given as Indiana consistently when Edson is found in the father's household.
Edson's father is, I believe, Oscar Chandler, born (according to the census) in NY in
Oct. 1842. Oscar moved around a lot. He had children born in Michigan, Indiana, Iowa and
Nebraska. In 1870, when Charles F. Chandler's mother was still alive, he was in
Bronson, Branch Co., MI and married to Sarah E., age 23 born in Ohio. By 1880 Sarah had
died--I guess--and he was married to a Geraldine (or Juraldine as it is in the 1880
census).
I have a page of notes scribbled from the census for 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910 and 1920 that
gives more detail, but since I don't know if this is what you're interested in I
won't write it all out now. If it's Edson's family and on down you're
interested in I'm sorry I know nothing about them.