Father: George Edwards Chancellor (1785-1836)
Mother: Ann Nancy Lyon (1782-1860)
- Educated, Fredericksburg Academy, Fredericksburg, VA
1846 - Attended, 1st course of medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1847-1848 - Attended, 2nd course of medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
1848 - M.D. degree, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA (from: Spottsylvania [sic], VA; preceptor: Dr. G. F. Carmichael; thesis: "Digestion")
11/04/1850 - Practiced medicine, Eastern District, Spotsylvania Co., VA (indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as J. E. Chancellor)
11/18/1853 - Married, Dorothea Josephine "Dorry" Anderson (1828-1862), Spotsylvania Co., VA
08/04/1860 - Practiced medicine, St. George's Parish, Spotsylvania Co., VA (living with wife, Dorothea, and three children - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as J. Edgar Chancellor)
12/31/1860 - Mother, Ann, died in Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania Co., VA
07/16/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
09/04/1861 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
09/04/1861 - As Asst. Surgeon, assigned to Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
09/07/1861 - Assigned to the Confederate Army of the Potomac and ordered to report to Medical Director Thomas H. Williams, Manassas Junction, VA
11/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
12/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA - remarks: "Asst. Surgeon Peter Winston, sick all month"
01/26/1862 - Granted leave of absence for 30 days [S.O. 26 - Gen. J. E. Johnston]
02/02/1862 - Furloughed
02/28/1862 - On a receipt for seven months pay at $110/mo., "I hereby certify that I entered on the discharge of my duty at the Genl. Hospl. at Charlottesville, Va., July 16, 1861, J. E. Chancellor, Asst. S. C.S.A"
03/08/1862 - On a receipt for commutation of quarters received by Asst. Surgeon J. E. Chancellor, "I certify on honor that there were no quarters owned or hired by the public at the above station [Charlottesville, Virginia] which could be assigned to Asst. Surgeon J. E. Chancellor during the above period [January 1 through January 31, 1862] and that the fuel is charged at the average market price for the month. T. J. Wertenbaker, Capt & Acting Asst. Quartermaster"
04/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
05/16/1862 - Sold 25 bushels of corn and 500 pounds of fodder to the Confederate States of America. He received $22.50 payment for this in Charlottesville, VA, on July 3, 1863. {Confederate Citizens' File]
06/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
07/26/1862 - At the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Mrs. D. Josephine Chancellor, wife of Dr. J. E. Chancellor, died of "typhoid fever with pulmonary congestion." (Buried: Berea Christ Church Cemetery, Spotsylvania Co., VA)
08/21/1862 - Death notice for his wife appeared in the Richmond Dispatch
09/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
11/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
11/22/1862 - On this date, Dr. J. E. Chancellor sold 3200 pounds of hay to the Confederate States of America in Spotsylvania C. H., VA, for $55.71. He received payment on July 3, 1863. [Confederate Citizens' File]
12/06/1862 - Ordered to appear before the [Confederate] Army Medical Board, Richmond, VA, for examination on Dec. 16, 1862, at 10:30 A.M.
12/16/1862 - Examined by a Confederate Army Board of Medical Examination
01/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
01/22/1863 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
04/03/1863 - "Surgeon J. E. Chancellor is relieved from duty at Charlottesville, Va., and will report for duty to the colonel of the Fifty-second Regiment, Virginia Volunteers." [S.O. 81/3]
04/03/1863 - Surgeon, 52nd VA Infantry
04/08/1863 - "Paragraph III, Special orders No. 81, current series, is hereby revoked, and Surgeon J. E. Chancellor will remain on duty at Charlottesville, Va." [S.O. 85/5]
04/08/1863 - Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
06/04/1863 - Surgeon, Gen, Hospital, Division #1, Charlottesville, VA
06/05/1863 - Relieved from duty at Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, and ordered to assume charge of Gen. Hospital, Palmyra, Fluvanna Co., VA, relieving Surgeon [Henry Marshall] Pinkard
10/13/1863 - "Surgeon J. E. Chancellor will relieve Surgeon E. D. Fletcher, in charge general hospital at Chaffin's Bluff..." [S.O. 243/2]
11/00/1863 - Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Div. No. 1, Charlottesville, VA
05/05/1864 - As Surgeon, relieved from duty at Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, and temporarily assigned to duty with the Reserve Medical Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
07/00/1864 - On sick list, Gen Hospital, Div. No. 1, Charlottesville, VA
08/14/1864 - Absent from Gen Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, on sick list
09/00/1864 - On sick list, Gen Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
09/19/1864 - On account of physical disability is relieved from duty on the Reserve Surgical Corps
1865-1872 - Demonstrator of anatomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
11/14/1867 - Married, Gabriella Garth Kirk Mayes (1829-1909), Birdwood Plantation, near Charlottesville, VA
06/25/1870 - Practiced medicine, Fredericksville Parish, Albemarle Co., VA (living with wife, Gabriella, three Chancellor children, and two Kirk children)
1871 - Member, Medical Society of Virginia
1874 - Practiced medicine, Charlottesville, VA
1875 - Permanent member, American Medical Association
1878 - Member, American Public Health Association
06/04/1880 - Practiced medicine, Charlottesville District, Albemarle Co., VA (living with wife, Gabriella, one step daughter, & one son - indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as D. J. Edgar Chancellor
1880 - Vice-president, Medical Society of Virginia
1883 - President, Medical Society of Virginia
1885 - Professor, Diseases of Women and Children, University of Florida, Tallahassee, FL (one year only)
1886,1890 - Practiced medicine, University of Virginia, Albemarle Co., VA
1890 - Member, Examining Board of Virginia
1893,1896 - Practiced medicine, Charlottesville, Albemarle Co., VA
- Honorary Fellow, Medical Society of Virginia
09/11/1896 - Died at his home, Charlottesville, Albemarle Co., VA (buried: University of Virginia Cemetery & Columbarium, Charlottesville, VA)
06/20/1900 - Widow, Gabriella, ran a boarding house, Charlottesville District, Charlottesville City, Albemarle Co., VA (indexed in the 1900 U.S. Census as GA* Chancellor/George Chancellor)

Scott Hutchison, Michael Angelo & Bob Krick provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
11/08/2013. Updated 12/12/2015.
Unpublished database.