When Albert Claud Chapman was born about 1868, in Wisconsin, United States, his father, Oren G. Chapman, was 25 and his mother, Frances Elliot Price, was 25. He lived in Minnesota, United States in 1870 and Albert Lea, Freeborn, Minnesota, United States in 1885.
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.
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