MRS. S. E. CHAPMAN - Biography

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This biography appears on page 677 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

MRS. S. E. CHAPMAN (widow); P. O. Waterford; born in Pinckney, Lewis
Co., N. Y., June 18, 1807; daughter of Levi and Lou Barnes, who came to
Racine in the fall of 1836, and settled on Sec. 35, which homestead now
stands in the centre of a beautiful village; the spot was formerly
called, by the Indians, "Cadney Castle," named after an Indian Chief-
the old Indian Council ground. Mrs. Chapman is the only surviving member
of the Barnes family. Mr. S. E. Chapman, attorney at law, married Miss
Harriet Barnes at Batavia, N. Y., September, 1832. They had eight
children, seven are living - Helen L., Irving H., Ellen V., Chauncy S.,
Hattie A., Imogene R., Charles A., Mary E. Mr. S. E. Chapman was born at
Saratoga Lake, N. Y. He was a member of the Territorial Legislature and
of the first State Legislature, also a member in 1861; was admitted to
practice in all the courts. He was a Masonic member. He started his
sons, Irving and Chauncy, in the milling business; one at Oketo, Kan.,
the other at Hanover, Washington Co., Kan. They are prospering finely.
Ellen and Imogene constitute the firm of I. R. Chapman & Co., in the
millinery business, at Waterford. They own the building. Mr. Chapman
died Sept. 25, 1872.