Hattie Baker Chappell

Female7 January 1869–1 August 1943

Brief Life History of Hattie Baker

When Hattie Baker Chappell was born on 7 January 1869, in Remington, Carpenter Township, Jasper, Indiana, United States, her father, George Byron Chappell, was 43 and her mother, Adelia A Bolles, was 32. She married David Shearer on 8 October 1902, in Jasper, Indiana, United States. She lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Pacific Grove, Monterey, California, United States in 1930. She died on 1 August 1943, in Monterey, Monterey, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in El Carmelo Cemetery, Pacific Grove, Monterey, California, United States.

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David Shearer
1863–1925
Hattie Baker Chappell
1869–1943
Marriage: 8 October 1902

Sources (12)

  • Hattie F Shearer in household of David Shearer, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Hattie B Chappell, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
  • Hattie C Shearer, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"

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  • Marriage
    8 October 1902Jasper, Indiana, United States
  • Parents and Siblings

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    World Events (8)

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

    Age 1

    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

    1872 · Montgomery Ward Inc.

    Age 3

    Montgomery Ward was founded by Aaron Montgomery Ward after he observed that rural customers often wanted goods from the city but couldn’t get them because of distance and cost. Ward believed that he could cut costs and make a wide variety of goods available to rural customers. Ward and two partners used $1,600 to issue the first catalog in August 1872 and with its publication, rural retailers considered Ward a threat and publicly burned his catalog. Despite the opposition, however, the business grew at a fast pace over the next several decades and was almost as successful as Sears. In April 1944, U.S. Army troops seized the Chicago offices of Montgomery Ward & Company after President Roosevelt ordered it because of an unsettled strike request made by the workers. Eight months later, with Montgomery Ward continuing to refuse to recognize the unions, President Roosevelt issued an executive order seizing all of Montgomery Ward's property nationwide. 

    1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

    Age 21

    This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

    Name Meaning

    English: topographic name for someone who lived near a chapel, from Middle English chapel(l)e ‘chapel’, via Old French, from Late Latin capella, originally a diminutive of capa ‘hood, cloak’, but later transferred to the sense ‘chapel, sanctuary’, with reference to the shrine at Tours where the cloak of Saint Martin was preserved as a relic.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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