Brief Life History of Wilford Gore
When Wilford Gore Chapman was born on 29 June 1864, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States, his father, Gore Bugbee Chapman, was 34 and his mother, Julia Ann Stevens, was 30. He married Tinnie Aubigne Drummond on 22 September 1887, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Maine, United States in 1860 and Portland Ward 6, Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States for about 10 years. He died on 3 September 1920, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States.
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- Wilford G Chapman, "United States Census, 1910"
- Wilford Gore Chapman, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Wilford G. Chapman, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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