Bio of CHAPMAN, Joseph (b.1871), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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JOSEPH CHAPMAN - Vol III, pg 663
Joseph Chapman was born in Dubuque, Iowa, October 17, 1871, his parents being
Joseph and Catherine C. (Casslday) Chapman, who were natives of Pittsburgh,
Penn­sylvania, and of Baltimore, Maryland, respectively. The father was for many
years connected with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad and later became
identified with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He passed away at Painesville,
Ohio, in 1912.
Joseph Chapman was educated in Dubuque, Iowa, and in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and
after graduating from the Central high school he obtained a position in the
Northwestern National Bank. He advanced through various positions until he
became vice president of the bank and is now a director of the institution. In
the year 1897 he was graduated from the law department of the University of
Minnesota. After his resignation from the Northwestern National Bank in 1919 he
became associated with the L. S. Donaldson Company, one of the largest and best
equipped department stores in the Northwest, of which corporation he is now the
vice president.
On the 26th of December, 1896, Joseph Chapman married M.iss Elizabeth G. Mahew
at Eau Claire, Wisconsin. They have become parents of two daughters, Rather-ine
and Elizabeth. The family attends the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal church
and Mr. Chapman has membership also with the Masonic fraternity, having taken
the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He is a member of the Phi Delta
Phi, a college fraternity, and is a member of the Minneapolis, Minikahda and Six
O'Clock Clubs, having been president of the last named in 1906-7. He was a
member of the Agricultural Development and Educational Committee of the State
Bankers Association, of which at one time he was president, and he has also
served on the executive committee of the American Bankers Association and
chairman of its com­mittee on agricultural development. From 1899 until 1906 he
was the secretary of the Minnesota Bankers Association and election to its
presidency came to him in 1908. He is a member of the American Institute of Bank
Clerks and was the organizer and president of its first chapter. He was chairman
of the citizens' pure water commis sion, which established the present
filtration plant of Minneapolis. For nine years he was a member of the Board of
Charities and Corrections and he acts as vice president of the Morris Plan
Company, the bank organized to lend money to working people on small interest.
He was one of the organizers and chairman of the finance committee of the New
Nicollet Hotel, now being constructed, and is vice president of the company.