Linn County KS Archives Obituaries.....WESTERHOUSE, Henry  November 12, 1897
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The LaCygne Weekly Journal
Linn County
Friday
November 12, 1897

J.E. Chapman Dead.
Former La Cygne Newspaper Man and Postmaster Dies at St. Joe.

J.E. Chapman, a former newspaper man and postmaster of LaCygne, died the 30th
ult. at St. Joseph, Mo. The Daily News of that city gives the following
information:
"J.E. Chapman, senior member of the Chapman Printing Company, died at 10 o'clock
this morning at his home, Twenty-fifth and Jule streets. Death was caused by an
abcess of the brain, which was removed last night by an operation. The deceased
was forty years of age and had for many years been engaged in the printing
business in St. Joseph. A brother of the deat man, L.C. Chapman, resides in the
city. His mother lives in Chicago, and another brother in Minneapolis. 
"Several days ago Mr. Chapman was taken with what was supposed to be the gripp.
Yesterday he became much worse and his physicians decided to open the skull, as
it was supposed he was suffering from an abcess. The operation was performed too
late to save his life."
Mr. Chapman came from Fort Scott to LaCygne in 1886, where he established and
conducted the LaCygne Leader, a Democratic newspaper, which he published until
November, 1888. He was appointed postmaster of La Cygne in the spring of 1887,
in which position he served for about two years, possessing the distinction of
being the first Democratic postmaster of this city. In 1889 with his family he
removed to St. Joseph, Mo., where he engaged in the job printing business, in
which he had the general reputation of being successful. He will be remembered
in Linn county, where himself and family had many friends who will learn with
deep regret of his death, and will sympathize with his family in their great loss. 



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