Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Chapman, Edward 1852 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm
************************************************
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 9, 2005, 7:26 pm

Author: C. H. Ellis


    EDWARD CHAPMAN was born in Tioga county, New York, December 20, 1852 and at

the age of fourteen removed with his parents to Cedar county, Iowa, where he

remained until the fall of 1882, when he came to this county and located a claim

and built a shanty, after which he returned to Iowa. On February 15th, 1883, the

land having come onto the market, he returned to Huron, Beadle county, and filed

on the land and returned to Iowa for his family and on the 27th of March, was on

the south-east quarter of section 3, township 118, range 68, which was

twenty-five miles from the nearest railroad station.



    Upon his arrival there he found that somebody had appropriated and removed

the roof from his shanty and that it was already occupied by at least four feet

of snow. After eating their dinner in the beautiful Dakota sunshine beside the

shanty, and removing the snow from the inside, the roof of Judge Derr's

unoccupied shanty was appropriated and a completed home was occupied that night.

Upon the arrival of his old friend and neighbor, Judge Derr, lumber had been

bought and was on the ground for a roof to his depleted shanty.



    Mr. Chapman was married in Cedar county, Iowa, to Miss Sara C. Golden, who

was born in Pennsylvania, their marriage occuring September 2nd, 1875. To them

was born January 5, 1882, a son, Delbert, who now resides with his parents, a

source of great comfort to them.



    Mr. Chapman in common with nearly all the pioneer settlers became perfectly

familiar with privation, exposure and all the trials attendant upon drouth, hail

and storm, and suffered total loss of crops in 1888-89, yet he was able to adapt

himself to the changing circumstances and conditions, and when, through climatic

changes and larger experience, the door to abundant prosperity stood open, he

was prepared to enter in.



    He has now at least four thousand dollars' worth of Norman Percheron horses

and two thousand dollars' worth of neat stock, is satisfied with his experience

in Dakota, and believes that it has been and still is among the most desirable

places for a home and to accumulate property in the great north-west.





Additional Comments:
From:



HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



ILLUSTRATED

19O9

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/sd/faulk/bios/gbs44chapman.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/sdfiles/

File size: 2.9 Kb