Biographical Sketch of Chapman & Cornwell, St. Joseph, Buchanan 
County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Chapman & Cornwell, real estate brokers, negotiators of loans, and
collecting agents.  M. B. Chapman, the senior member of this firm,
is a native of Louisiana, where he was born October 22, 1846.  He 
has been all his life a member of the M. E. Church South, and is
recognized as a preacher of ability.  He is at present, minister
in charge of the church in Weston.  During the civil war, he served
in the Confederate army, enlisting as private in the Washington
Artillery of New Orleans.  In the following year, he was promoted
to the position of chaplain in his regiment.  He is also a member
of the Masonic order.  He afterwards moved to Missouri, settling 
in St. Joseph, where he married Miss Maggie Harris.  Mr. Chapman
was the founder and for four years editor of the Evening Chronicle,
which was afterwards consolidated with the Gazette, and for some
time published as the Gazette-Chronicle.  H. N. Cornell was born in
the State of Vermont, November 16, 1828, and at the age of seven
years his parents moved West, stopping for a short season in New
York and Pennsylvania.  He served in the United States Navy, and
was, from 1844, two and one half years on the steamer Michigan. He
then learned the saddle and harness business.  In 1850, he passed 
through St. Joseph on his way to California, in an overland trip,
returning to old Fort Kearney, now Nebraska City, where he carried
on for several years the saddle and harness business.  On April 14,
1861, he married Miss Mary H. Deneen, a native of Indiana, by whom
he has had six children.  In 1864, he crossed the plains to Idaho,
with his own freight train, a venture in which he lost all he had.
In 1867, he returned to St. Joseph, and the following year, again
engaged in business.  In 1880, the present partnership of Chapman &
Cornell was formed.

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