El Paso-Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Chapman, S. T. 1868 - 
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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.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME III

CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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