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         D. A. CHAPMAN, an early settler of Louisa County, Iowa, residing on section 20, Concord Township, was born in Connecticut, in 1830, and was the fourth in a family of six children, four sons and two daughters, who were born to Ambrose and Permelia (Williams) Chapman, who were also natives of Connecticut. The father was a farmer by occupation, and removed to Ohio in 1835, settling in Richland County, where he remained four years, and in 1839 removed to Lee County, Iowa, taking up his residence at Montrose. Remaining there for only about a year, he went to Mercer County, Ill., where he engaged in farming for seven years, and next went to Lake County, Ind., where his death occurred in 1878, at the age of seventy-five. His wife died while they were residing in Mercer County, Ill., in 1844, at the age of forty-seven years.

The earlier years of our subject were spent upon his father’s farm, and his education was received in the district schools of Iowa. He went with his parents to Indiana, but returned to this State in 1851, and four years later, in Louisa County, Iowa, wedded Rhoda A. Spurgeon, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of Jeremiah and Nancy (Walls) Spurgeon, who came to Louisa County. They here settled upon a farm in Concord Township, where the death of the father occurred Oct. 10, 1845, at the age of fifty-seven years, the mother having died about a year before, Sept. 27, 1844, at the age of forty-nine. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman are the parents of but one child, Flora, now Mrs. Low, a resident of Concord Township.

In 1872 our subject purchased a farm, which consisted of 111 acres of partly improved land near Fredonia. He immediately began its cultivation, . . .

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. . . erected a comfortable residence, and is now the owner of a good farm of 119 acres, which is well stocked with a good grade of Durham cattle and Bashaw and Clyde horses. It is pleasantly situated, only about a mile from Columbus Junction, but when he first came to this county his nearest market place was twenty miles away. Politically, Mr. Chapman is a Greenbacker, and has held various township offices of public trust. As a citizen he is highly respected in Louisa County, where for many years he has made his home, and witnessed its development and progress.