PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: Chapman, Joseph E. (1885) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Betty Ralph bralph@HiWAAY.net December 26, 1999 *********************************************************************** Bios: Calhoun, Calvin, Chapman, Clark, Coe - Portage County, Ohio, from "History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885 Copyright © 1999 by Betty Ralph. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. bralph@hiwaay.net ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ JOSEPH E. CHAPMAN, blacksmith, Edinburg, born in Edinburg Township, this county, June 17, 1839; son of James and Elizabeth Chapman; the former born in England in 1800, and died April 8, 1871; the latter born in Pennsylvania in 1811, and died November 9, 1880. They were married in Pennsylvania and moved to Columbiana County, Ohio, thence to this county in 1837, and remained here until their death. Our subject was thrice married, first to Susanna Grate, November 26, 1863 (she was born in this county 1845, and died April 3, 1864). His second wife, to whom he was married February 28, 1865, was Carrie Patterson (born in Mahoning County, Ohio, Februsry 28, 1847, died October 29, 1875), and his present wife, whom he married April 26, 1876, was Nettie Heller born in Fostoria, Ohio, September 24, 1848. Mr. Chapman is the father of two children - Mary A. and Embra C. - and resides at Edinburg, where he owns thirty-two acres of land, on which he and his family reside.