When La Vor Cutler Chapman was born on 7 July 1917, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, his father, John Henry Chapman, was 37 and his mother, Nancy Matilda Cutler, was 33. He married Eleanora Iola Montierth on 11 March 1941, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to California, United States in 1940 and lived in United States in 1949 and World for about 8 years. He died on 27 July 2007, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
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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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