El Paso-Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Chapman, S. T. 1868 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 December 21, 2008, 9:04 pm Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918) S. T. CHAPMAN. S. T. Chapman, who has extensive farm holdings, his property interests including nine hundred and sixty acres of land in the vicinity of Calhan, was born July 30, 1868, at Bonaparte, Van Buren county, Iowa, a son of Samuel and Charlotte (Miller) Chapman. The father was a native of Scotland but of English descent and the mother was born in Pennsylvania. The grandfather in the paternal line was gamekeeper for Lord Cumming in Scotland, who was the father of Cumming, the noted African hunter and explorer. S. T. Chapman, after mastering the branches of learning in the common schools, started out to provide for his own support by working by the month as a farm hand and was employed in that way for several years. At the age of nineteen, however, he left Iowa and removed to York county, Nebraska, where he resided for two years and later he went to Kansas City, Missouri, where he became connected with the secret service, being thus employed for a year. During that time he traveled south to Memphis, Tennessee, and into several of the middle western states. Subsequently he made his way to Denver and to Pueblo and was employed at odd jobs in those cities. He also spent some time in Colorado Springs and was employed on the famous Pike's Peak cog railroad. He next went to the divide west of Monument, Colorado, and still later to Calhan, where he preempted one hundred and sixty acres of land. Later he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres additional and from time to time he has added to his holdings until his possessions now include nine hundred and sixty acres of rich and valuable land, much of which he has brought under a high state of cultivation. He also leases other land for pasturage, keeping one hundred head of cattle. He is regarded as one of the progressive and enterprising farmers and stock raisers of this section of the state. He also owned and conducted a mercantile business at Calhan for two and a half years but devoted little of his attention to the business, as he had competent employes in the store. He is justly accounted one of the leading ranchers of his part of El Paso county, for his business affairs are wisely and carefully conducted and an air of neatness and thrift pervades his place everywhere. He has good buildings upon his land and he takes a just and commendable pride in being thoroughly up-to-date in all of his farming methods. On the 23d of August, 1900, Mr. Chapman was united in marriage to Miss Effie Worley, who was born and reared in Topeka, Kansas, their marriage being celebrated in Colorado Springs. They have one daughter, Isabelle, born October 2, 1902, and now a senior in the Calhan high school. Mr. Chapman votes with the republican party, of which he has been a stalwart advocate since attaining adult age. He belongs to the Odd Fellows lodge of Calhan and is loyal to its teachings. He is now serving as one of a committee of two for Calhan- and vicinity who have charge of the sale of war savings stamps and he supports all measures for the good of the community and for the advancement of the welfare of the country at large. He is a progressive and energetic citizen and business man, loyal at all times to the high ideals of his country, and he commands the confidence and respect of all with whom he has been associated. His life record should serve to inspire and encourage others, showing what may be accomplished when there is a will to dare and to do. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF COLORADO ILLUSTRATED VOLUME III CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1918 Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/elpaso/photos/bios/chapman81nbs.jpg File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/elpaso/bios/chapman81nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cofiles/ File size: 4.3 Kb