Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Chapman, D. William  February 16, 1871 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

D. WILLIAM CHAPMAN
	It is with pleasure that he accord to the rising young agriculturist 
whose name initiates this paragraph, and whose enterprise and integrity are 
manifest to all, a representation in this portion of these chronicles of 
Umatilla county, in which section he has wrought with assiduity and 
intelligence for sufficient time to demonstrate his ability to be of a high 
order, and where the success he has acquired is very flattering.
	He is a product of the west, being born in Walla Walla, Washington, on 
February 16, 1871. In that city he resided for the first fifteen years of his 
life, and there also he received a good education from the public schools. 
When he arrived at the age mentioned he engaged with his brother-in-law, Ed 
Campbell, to herd sheep, which occupation he followed continuously for seven 
years, in which time he acquired a fine practical knowledge of handling sheep. 
This has been of inestimable advantage to him during the years subsequent to 
that time. After this service he invested his hard earnings in a bunch of 
cattle and gave his attention to their care for two years, then selling them 
to good advantage and investing in sheep. He is still following sheep raising, 
in which industry, because of his practical knowledge and close attention to 
every detail of his business, he is achieving a marked success, seeming to be 
yoked to prosperity’s chariot. In 1896 he took up a homestead where he still 
lives and where he maintains the headquarters for his sheep industry, having 
now between two and three thousand head.
	His marriage took place in Pendleton, on October 16, 1895, when Miss 
Virginia Lightfoot became his wife. She is a native of this county, whose 
father, S. G. Lightfoot, is spoken of in another portion of this volume. The 
union was crowned by the advent of one child, Morvia F., born September 18, 
1900. Mr. Chapman now lives in Spring Hollow, four miles north from Gurdane P. 
O., while his father, A. J. Chapman, who was formerly a miller in Walla Walla, 
now resides on Butter creek. Notwithstanding the close attention that he has 
paid to his business matters, still our subject has found time to take care of 
all the detailed work of a public office to the district where he lives, being 
called thereto by the franchises of his fellow citizens, and in which he has 
by his characteristic faithfulness and integrity conserved the interests of 
the people so thoroughly that he has won their perfect confidence and 
admiration.


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.


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