Margaret Louisa (Terry) Chanler (1862 - 1952)

Born 12 Aug 1862 in Roma, Lazio, Italy

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Died 18 Dec 1952 at age 90 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

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The Livingston Republican Geneseo, Livingston County, New York. Thursday, December 25, 1952

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Chanler — Mrs. Margaret Ward Terry Chanler, author and musician and widow of Major Winthrop Aster Chanler, died last Thursday in her home in the Sulgrave Hotel, New York City, at the age of 91.

Mrs. Chanler, like her late husband, was a descendant of a well known American Family. She was born in Italy, where her father, Luther Terry, had gone in 1833 to study art. Her mother, Louisa Ward, was a sister of Julia Ward Howe and a daughter of the sculptor, Thomas Crawford. Mrs. Chanler was a half-sister of F. Marion Crawford, the novelist.

Her husband was a great great grandson of John Jacob Aster and a well known sportsman who served in the Spanish - American War as an aide to the late General of the Army John J. Pershing in World War I.

While in Europe she studied music with Sgambati, a pupil of Liszt. Her life in Rome she described in a book of memoirs entitled "Roman Spring", which was published in 1934. She also wrote "Autumn in the Valley", about her life in the Genesee Valley, where she and her husband had made their home after having lived in Washington, New York City and Tuxedo Park.

Mrs. Chanler also translated "Hymns to the Church" by Gertrude von le Forte. The Nazareth College in Rochester awarded her the honorary degree of Doctor of Human Letters.

She is survived by two sons, Rear Admiral Hubert Chanler, USN, retired, of Geneseo and Theodore Chanler of Ipswich, Mass; four daughters, Mrs. Lawrence G. White of St. James, L. I., Mrs. Pierre A. Allegaert of Laconia, N. H., Mrs. E. W. Pickman of Bedford, Mass. and Mrs. Porter Chandler of Geneseo and New York and several grand children and great grandchildren.

Funeral services were held in New York Saturday and on Sunday afternoon a prayer service was conducted in the chapel at Sweetbriar, her former home. Interment was in the family plot in St. Mary's cemetery.

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• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135349173/margaret-louisa-chanler