Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 435
HEBER WILLIAM CHAPMAN

Heber William CHAPMAN, a dry goods merchant and a popular citizen of the Village of Persia. Harrison County, Iowa, will form the subject of this sketch. He was born in Wiltshire, England, July 7, 1854, and in the spring of 1861, his parents came to the United States and from the coast came direct to Florence, Neb., near Omaha, and from there went overland by team to Salt Lake City, Utah, and returned to Florence, Neb., in 1864, and in the spring of 1865 came to Harrison County and settled on the Pigeon, in Cass Township, where they rented a farm for two years and then bought forty acres of land in Jefferson Township, near REEDER'S Mills. The place was improved at the time they purchased it and they held it until 1870, when they sold and moved to Valley View in Union Township, where they bought a piece of wild land comprising two hundred acres, which they improved. The Village of Persia was just started at this time (1882) and our subject started in the general merchandising business at that point, his being the first dry-goods store of the place. He is still carrying on an extensive business.

He was married to Miss Frances M. LEGAN, of Vinton, Benton County, Iowa, November 14,1875, and they are the parents of eight children: Maria, Robert, Elsie, Mabel, Emily, Edna, Willie and Elvin. Emily is deceased.

Mrs. CHAPMAN was born in Franklin, Johnson County, Ind., and she and her husband, together with their two oldest children, are acceptable members of the latter Day Saints Church. Mr. CHAPMAN is a member of the Masonic order, Lodge No. 490, at Persia. Politically, Mr. CHAPMAN votes with the Democratic party.

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