Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Chatland, William June 9, 1811 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 253
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    William Chatland, a worthy citizen of Brownsville, where 
he has resided for the last thirty five years and is one of 
the foremost businessmen of the place, having been engaged 
in the baker business ever since he came to Brownsville in 
1854.  
    At present he is carrying on an extensive cracker 
manufactory in partnership with his son-in-law, George W 
Lenhart, and under the firm name of Chatland and Lenhart.  
They have the reputation of making the best water cracker in 
the market.  
    William Chatland was born at Stratford-on-Avon, 
Warwickshire, England, June 9, 1811.  His father, William 
Chatland, was a citizen of Meriden, a borough six miles 
north of the city of Coventry and in the same shire.  He 
died in London in 1819 in the forty first year of his age.  
The mother of the subject was named Priscilla Green, a 
native of Brier Hill, Staffordshire, England.  She died in 
1814 when her son was but three years of age.  
    Mr Chatland was given in charge of his grandmother who 
died when he was ten years old.  His uncle, Joseph Chatland, 
a prosperous baker, then took charge of him till he was 
thirteen years old when he was apprenticed to learn the 
trade of a baker with David Claridge, who was at that time a 
famous baker in the city of Coventry.  
    When through his apprenticeship he spent ? and one half 
years in London where he was employed in two first-class 
houses.  He then returned to Coventry, established himself 
in the bakers business and was married to Miss Elizabeth 
Manton, daughter of William Manton, a farmer of Berkswell, 
Warwickshire.  He remained here about six years when he 
migrated to the United States with his wife and three 
daughters and arrived in New York, April 20, 1844.  
    Shortly after landing he left for Pittsburgh on the old 
"Bingham Line," remained a short time in Pittsburgh and 
finally settled at Washington, Penna, where he lived for 
about eight years and carried on the bakery and 
confectionary business.  
    In 1852 he organized a company of fifteen persons and 
went overland to California.  In Sacramento he bought out a 
bakery and operated it with success, but was compelled by 
sickness to quit the country.  He now returned to 
Washington, Penna, where he had left his family, not being 
satisfied with the outlook for business at that place, he 
removed to Brownsville in 1854 and established himself in 
business in the full line of his trade.  For eighteen years 
he continued alone in the business, when Mr Lenhart became 
his partner.  
    Mrs Elizabeth Chatland, his wife, died in Brownsville, 
January 28, 1874, in the sixty first year of her age, 
leaving three daughters: Elizabeth Chatland, the eldest, 
married Theodore Bosler, a son of Dr Bosler of 
Mechanicsburg, Penna, now living at Dayton, Ohio; Miss Mary 
Ann Chatland, the second daughter, resides at home with her 
father; Sarah Chatland is the wife of George W Lenhart.  
    Mr Chatland was raised in the faith of the Church of 
England, and he and his family are members of the Protestant 
Episcopal church.  He is now a vestryman in the church at 
Brownsville, and has been for many years past.  
    Since 1848 Mr Chatland has been a prominent member of 
the F and A M.  He was District Deputy Grand Master for 
Pennsylvania for fifteen years; District Deputy High Priest 
for sixteen years; Eminent Commander of St Omer's 
Commandery, No 7, of Brownsville for about eighteen years 
and is proud of his record as a Mason.  

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