Entrepreneur. He became one of the wealthiest men in California, mainly with real estate in the Los Angeles area early in the 20th century. He attended Dartmouth College for a short time, before becoming seriously ill with pneumonia. In the early 1880s, he moved to California for health reasons, working outside as a fruit picker in the San Fernando Valley. From the fruit fields, he started a small delivery company that soon became responsible for delivering many of the city's morning newspapers. He eventually bought a newspaper circulation route, which got him hired by Harrison Gray Otis, owner of the "Los Angeles Times," and later he became circulation manager of the newspaper. In 1899 he married Magdalena "May" Schlador, who died shortly after their third daughter was born in 1892. On June 5, 1894, he married Otis's daughter, Marian, consolidating the two families' wealth. He and Marian had six children, including twins. Following the death of Otis, Chandler became the publisher of the "Los Angeles Times' and soon was the chairman of the board of Times-Mirror Company. Under his reins as publisher of the "Times", the newspaper came to lead all other American newspapers in advertising space and the number of classified ads. Branching into real estate, he became a prominent citizen of Los Angeles in the first half of the 20th Century, as a community builder and speculator. A syndicate, which included him and Otis, had already acquired some 47,000 acres of grain fields in the San Fernando Valley in anticipation of both the arrival of water in 1913 and the Valley's annexation into Los Angeles, which was all promoted by the "Times." The acreage was divided into town lots creating a sales boom that formed the foundation of the Harry Chandler family fortune. Besides the San Fernando Valley, he was noted for the development of Hollywood Hills, the Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles Coliseum, San Pedro Harbor and many others. He died of a heart attack at age 80.