Brief Life History of Stephen
When Stephen Chipman was born on 8 August 1805, in Johnstown, Edwardsburgh Township, Leeds and Grenville, Canada West, British North America, his father, Barnabas Lathrop Chipman, was 42 and his mother, Beulah Evarts, was 44. He married Amanda Washburn on 23 May 1825, in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He immigrated to Caldwell, Missouri, United States in 1837 and lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. He died on 17 February 1868, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in American Fork Cemetery, American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Stepn Chipman, "United States Census, 1860"
- 1805 Family Data Collection - Births
- 1852 U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1818
Illinois is the 21st state.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English chipman (Old English cȳp(e)mann), a side form of chapman, chepman ‘merchant, trader’; see Chapman , with which this name was interchangeable.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Stephen Chipman Story
The Chipman odyssey began in 1836, in Ontario, Canada. Stephen Chipman stopped to hear a group of Mormon missionaries sing and commented, "Men who can sing like that must be men of God." Shortly after …
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