Lester Chapman

Brief Life History of Lester

When Lester Chapman was born on 3 March 1883, in Chillicothe, Wapello, Iowa, United States, his father, Lester Osgood Chapman, was 39 and his mother, Ellen Caroline Sayers, was 30.

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Family Time Line

Lester Osgood Chapman
1843–1917
Ellen Caroline Sayers
1852–1911
Katie Jane Chapman
1879–1952
Ralph Chapman
1880–
Thomas Peck 'Tom' Chapman
1883–1935
Lester Chapman
1883–
Ellsworth Chapman
1885–1951
Edith Ann Chapman
1887–1959
Amos Edward Chapman
1889–1954
Charley Osgood Chapman
1894–1945

Sources (3)

  • Lester Chapman, "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935"
  • Lester Chapman, "Iowa Births and Christenings, 1830-1950"
  • Lester Chapman, "Iowa, Births and Christenings, 1830-1950"

World Events (8)

1884 · There is now a Capital Building

The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

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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