Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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DR. EDWARD J. CHAPMAN

Dr. Edward J. CHAPMAN, of Missouri Valley, has been a resident of Harrison County since 1871, and has been a practicing physician ever since he came to the county. He was born in La Porte, Ind., in 1845, the son of Frederick and Esther (WOODARD) CHAPMAN, the former from Vermont and the latter from New York State. The father was in the carriage business and the family left the Empire State, about 1832, and moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., remained six years and moved to La Porte, Ind., where the father died in March 1870, and the mother, in April, 1887, in Missouri Valley. Our subject received his early education in La Porte, and when sixteen years of age began a course at Oberlin College, Ohio. In 1867, he began the study of medicine at La Porte, and finished his course at Rush Medical College at Chicago, graduating in February, 1871. the following August he located at Missouri Valley.

He was married May 19, 1873, at Missouri Valley, to Mary GOLTRY, a native of Erie County, N.Y., whose parents came to Harrison County in 1869. The father died in 1876, and the mother, in 1882. Dr. and Mrs. CHAPMAN are the parents of one daughter, Lola E., who is a graduate of the Missouri Valley High School, and has entered Wellesley College at Wellesley, Mass., where she will take a complete collegiate course.

Dr. CHAPMAN and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, and politically, he affiliates with the Democratic party.

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