Biographical Sketch of Nelson Chapman, Johnson County, Missouri,
Chilhowee Township

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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Nelson Chapman, an enterprising and influential farmer and stockman of
Chilhowee township, is a native of Indiana.  He was born in 1870, a son
of George and Mary E. Chapman.  the father was a son of Uriah Chapman,
a successful and prosperous farmer of Lawrence county, Indiana.  George
Chapman was a veteran of the Civil War, a member of the Seventeenth
Indiana Infantry, serving with Wilder's Lightning brigade.  He was with
Sherman on his famous march to the sea and he took an active part in
many hard fought engagements and important battles.  For his exception-
al bravery on the field of battle, Mr. Chapman was awarded a medal,
showered with encomiums by comrades and officers, and called "Little
Chappy."  After the war had ended, he returned to the farm in Indiana
and was there engaged in farming until 1871, when he came to Missouri
and located in Cass county, where he resided for a few years and then
went back to Indiana to live for nearly three years.  In 1877, George
Chapman again came to Missouri and settled in Johnson county.  He resi-
ded several years on a farm in Rose Hill township and then moved to the
place in Chilhowee township in 1888, where he spent the remainder of 
his life.  He died in 1904.  Nelson Chapman attended school at Pleasant
Ridge in Johnson county, and Miss Alice Quick, Miss Emma Metzler, and
David Smith were at different times employed as teacher while Mr. Chap-
man was a pupil.  He later was a pupil in the school near Magnolia, of
which Miss Lizzie Houston was the teacher, and in the schools of Magno-
lia, and St. Cecelia's Academy, Holden, Missouri.  Since he attained
maturity, Mr. Chapman has been engaged in farming every year.  In 1893,
he purchased a farm of forty acres in Chilhowee township, which are
adjoining his present place, a tract of eighty acres that he obtained
when he sold his original farm.  Mr. Chapman is interested in stock
raising and has the farm well equipped for handling Poland China hogs
and Duroc Jerseys and white face cattle, which breeds of hogs and 
cattle he prefers.  In 1914, Mr. Chapman bought two acres of land with-
in the town limits of Magnolia and to the home in Magnolia he has moved 
from the farm.  He is engaged in buying and shipping cream and garden-
ing.  The season of 1917 he had twenty-five acres of his farm in corn.
Mr. Chapman is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and of
the Modern Woodmen of America.  He and Mrs. Chapman are highly regarded
in Magnolia nad they are numbered among the county's excellent and most
desirable citizens.

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