Sonoma-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Chapman, T. M. 1828 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 3, 2006, 8:19 pm Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880) Chapman, T. M. A native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, was born February 10, 1828. He received his education in his native State, and resided there until sixteen years of age, when he accompanied his parents to Adams county, Illinois, and there resided for nine years. Having emigrated, he came to California by way of the plains and arrived in Placerville, then Hangtown, on August 27, 1852, and there commenced mining, which he prosecuted for five years, at the end of which time he transferred the scene of his labors to Sonoma county, and bought a farm in Two Rock valley, which after a time he leased, and returned to the "States." Mr. Chapman married in Vermont, March 1, 1858, Mary Colby, and with her returned to this State and settled on his farm, and there remained until 1862, in which year he removed to Point Reyes, and was occupied in agricultural pursuits for two years, when he settled on his present ranch of four hundred acres, located in Vallejo township, about three miles from Petaluma. By their union Mr. and Mrs. Chapman have five living children: Edwin A.; Harry; Elliot C.; Phoebe; and Mary L. Additional Comments: Vallejo Township Extracted from: HISTORY —OF- SONOMA COUNTY, -INCLUDING ITS— Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams; —TOGETHER WITH— A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County; Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain Growing Interests, and Pisciculture; ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN; —AND OF ITS— Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc. ILLUSTRATED. SAN FRANCISCO: ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1880. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sonoma/bios/chapman323gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb