Bio of CHAPMAN, Dr. Ozias Stephen (b.1839), 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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OZIAS STEPHEN CHAPMAN, M.D. - Vol II, pg 168-172
Dr. Ozias Stephen Chapman, physician and surgeon, entered upon the active
practice of his profession in Minneapolis in 1881 but brought with him the
benefit of wide study and varied previous experience in several other fields.
About eight years ago he retired, thus terminating a worthy professional career,
and now in the evening of his days he is enjoying a rest which he has truly
earned and richly merits. He has passed the eighty-fourth milestone on life's
journey, his birth having occurred at Niagara Falls, New York, on the llth of
March, 1839. He is a son of Gardner S. and Amanda R. (Judd) Chapman, the latter
a sister of Orange Judd, the noted agriculturist, who became the founder and
editor of the American Agriculturist, practically the first trade paper in
America. He was also one of the originators of the International Sunday school
movement and likewise became one of the founders of the Freedman's Bureau, which
was organized after the Civil war for the education and uplift of the colored
race. Gardner S. Chapman, the father of dr. Chapman, was born in Charlton,
Saratoga county, New York, at one time served as a major in the New York state
militia and was a stanch Christian character. His ancestors came to the new
world from England in the seventeenth century and a number of the
representatives of the family engaged in manufacturing enterprises. The mother
of Dr. Chapman was born in Lewiston, Niagara county. New York, and was a devout
Christian woman who carefully reared her family of nine children, all of whom
were and five of them are now living exemplary citizens. Mrs. Chapman was a
daughter of Ozias and Rheuama Judd, the former an ardent abolitionist who took a
very active part in furthering the cause. He went to Kansas in his old age to
help free that state from the impending curse of slavery and died while in that
service. The ancestral history of the Judd family is traced back to the
thirteenth century. They emigrated to this country from England in 1634 and the
record includes the names of a number of notable men in the Revolutionary army
and in statecraft. Dr. Chapman had two brothers, Orange J. and Edmund G., who
enlisted in the Union army as soon as they were old enough to do so. Both became
members of the Grand Army of the Republic, and when that organization met in
Minneapolis in the year 1884, the three brothers marched in the parade.
Dr. Chapman acquired his common and high school education in Lockport, New York,
and removed to the west in 1857, when eighteen years of age. In 1859, having
determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work, he began attending
lectures in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor but ere completing his
course there entered the army in 1862. He was appointed a hospital steward, U.
S. A., by the secretary of war and had the supervision of a large army hospital
at Cincinnati, Ohio. While performing the duties of that position he was
graduated from the Miami Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, in 1865.
In the year 1867 Dr. Chapman removed to Kansas City, Missouri, where he remained
until 1873. His health, however, became seriously impaired during his sojourn
there and seeking the benefit of a change of climate he went to Spencer,
Massachusetts, where he continued in practice, for six years. Later he went
abroad and after his return came to Minneapolis in 1881. Through the intervening
years he has resided in this city and for an extended period enjoyed a
moderately large and important practice, from which he retired about eight years
ago, owing to his advanced age. In 1884 he built a residence at the corner of
Grant street and Fourth avenue South, which remained his home for thirty-one
years. The ground is now occupied by the Winslow apartments. Dr. Chapman was a
member of the Hennepin County Medical Society and for a number of years served
on one of its chief committees. He was also a member of the Minnesota State
Medical Society and the American Medical Association. For thirty-one years he
was one of the local surgeons of the Northern Pacific Beneficial Association,
organized and sustained by the Northern Pacific Railroad, and when he resigned
fourteen years ago there were one hundred and thirty-five employes in one
department who signed a petition to have him restored, actuated by one of the
officials. Among his other published articles he wrote one entitled "The Work
and Worth of the General Practitioner," and another article objecting to the
general practice of the prophylactic douche, both of which were highly
commended.
In 1873 Dr. Chapman was united in marriage to Miss Adelaide C. Heyworth,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Heyworth of Peru, New York, her father being a
descendant of one of the old families of England. Among his ancestors were those
who aided in winning national independence as soldiers of the Revolutionary war,
and it is by reason thereof that Mrs. Chapman and her daughter, Mrs. Sterling,
have become members of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Dr. and Mrs.
Chapman became parents of two children, one of whom died in infancy. The
surviving daughter, Ednah, became the wife of Starr King Sterling of
Minneapolis, on the 17th of June, 1922. Mrs. Chapman has been very active in the
religious and social circles of Minneapolis and was one of the founders of the
Young Women's Christian Association of this city, of which she served at one
time as president.
Dr. Chapman has been a stalwart republican since age conferred upon him the
right of franchise and has ever kept thoroughly informed concerning the vital
questions and issues of the day. He has long been an active member of the
Congregational church, in which he has been highly honored officially and has
served as a teacher of boys in the Sunday school for a number of years, feeling
that this work has contributed to his own advancement in life and thought. He is
likewise connected with John A. Rawlins Post, G. A. R., of Minneapolis. Although
ever otherwise than robust in health, owing to careful dieting and other means
he still has a good degree of mental if not bodily vigor, though he has a
progressive disability of his lower extremities. Notable, indeed, are the events
which Dr. Chapman has witnessed during the course of his long, active and useful
life. Born during the presidency of Martin Van Buren, he has lived to see his
country emerge successfully from three great wars and has seen the continent
crossed with a net-w'ork of railroads and with aeroplanes. He has witnessed the
introduction of most marvelous electric devices, and in nothing has he seen
greater changes than in the methods of medical and surgical practice, for the
profession has at all times kept abreast with the trend of modern progress.
While ofttimes interested in reviewing the past, Dr. Chapman has kept in touch
with the present, not only as a representative of his profession but also in
connection with all those questions and interests which have been of vital worth
to the nation and the world at large. Moreover, he is intensely interested in
philanthropic measures in this country and other lands. On the other hand he
hopes the criminals will be more speedily dealt with and justice not so long
delayed by the legal technicalities so often displayed.