Alfred Chapman  Biography  Hancock County, WV

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Submitted by Dale Patterson <Norton750@aol.com>

Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the 
Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia".  
Compiled and Written by:
J.H. Newton,  G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle
Published by:
J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA.

                Biographical Sketches of Hancock County:


Alfred Chapman:
    a son of the above, was born August 6, 1814, on the old homestead.  He 
was engaged in assisting his father on the farm until his marriage, which 
took place on the 11th of May, 1843.  He lead Miss Sarah Mayers, daughter of 
Cornelius Mayers, Esq., of Knoxville, Ohio, to the altar.  Shortly after his 
marriage he went on his present farm of one hundred and thirty-five acres, 
and has followed that vocation ever since.  In 1866 he purchased another 
tract of land adjoining his of one hundred and forty acres.  They have a 
family of four children living, three boys and one girl.  He has an 
excellent farm with a good quality of coal underlying  it.  A bank was 
opened on his place in 1849 which was operated for seven years, taking from
1,000 to 3,000 bushels out per day.  Veins run from four to five feet.  He 
is the most successful and the most extensive bee culturist in the county.  
Is now the owner of eighty colonies of bees.  In 1877 he raised 1,600 pounds 
of honey.  Has belonged to the Disciples' Church for about thirty-two years, 
and his wife nearly thirty-four years.