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Nine Generations In Belgrade Lakes
When the Rutherfords held a family reunion on Great Pond July 4 The former family farm is how Janet Boyd Rutherford explains the property where the 1899 mostly unmodernized camp stands and where generations have enjoyed a legacy of being related to one of the town's early entrepreneurs. Jan is the great, great, great granddaughter of John Chandler, originally from Massachusetts, who settled in the Village in 1828, ran a prosperous spool mill on the outlet of the stream from Great Pond, had constructed the unique granite building on the Long Pond side of Main Street which he ran as a store, was the first postmaster in town, and after whom the area was know as Chandler Mills for many years. John's son Joseph, described as the rich man of the town in a 1952 write-up of Jan's grandmother Erminie Kelley Davenport, carried on the family name but subsequent generations were rich in daughters and many new names were introduced into the genealogy: Kelley, Davenport, Boyd, Rutherford and Williams, which is the family name of Jan's great granddaughters.
Interestingly, all those marriages took these Chandler descendants to the other side of the country. Jan lives on a ranch in California, with two sons and one daughter, working on the ranch or nearby; another daughter, Sandra, and her family are based in Arizona. Although they'd be here all summer if they could, this historically connected family has always returned to Belgrade Lakes for at least part of the summer and they have no plans to ever change that.
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