Brief Life History of Andrew F
When Andrew F Chapman was born on 21 March 1870, in Cherokee, Colbert, Alabama, United States, his father, John B Chapman, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth O Kuykendall, was 23. He married Mary Elizabeth Morris on 16 August 1888, in Cherokee, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Cherokee, Alabama, United States in 1880 and Hokes Bluff, Etowah, Alabama, United States for about 10 years. He died on 6 March 1927, in Gadsden, Etowah, Alabama, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Hokes Bluff, Etowah, Alabama, United States.
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- Andrew Chatman, "United States Census, 1910"
- Andrew F Chapman, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Andrew F. Chapman, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1872 · The Amnesty Act
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a merchant or trader, Middle English chap(pe)man, chepman, Old English cēapmann, cēpemann, a compound of cēap ‘barter, bargain, price, property’ + mann ‘man’.
Jewish: adopted probably for a like-sounding or like-meaning name in some other European language; see for example Kaufman .
History: This name was brought independently to North America from England by numerous different bearers from the 17th century onward. John Chapmen (sic) was one of the free planters who assented to the ‘Fundamental Agreement’ of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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