Parsons, Col. William and Shiach, W. S.  "An Illustrated History of Umatilla
County and of Morrow County." Spokane, WA: W. H. Lever, 1902. p. 364.
 
D. WILLIAM CHAPMAN

     It is with pleasure that he accord to the rising young agriculturist whose
name initiates this paragraph, and whose enterprise and integrity are manifest
to all, a representation in this portion of these chronicles of Umatilla county,
in which section he has wrought with assiduity and intelligence for sufficient
time to demonstrate his ability to be of a high order, and where the success he
has acquired is very flattering.
     He is a product of the west, being born in Walla Walla, Washington, on
February 16, 1871.  In that city he resided for the first fifteen years of his
life, and there also he received a good education from the public schools.  When
he had arrived at the age mentioned he engaged with his brother-in-law, Ed
Campbell, to herd sheep, which occupation he followed continuously for seven
years, in which time he acquired a fine practical knowledge of handling sheep.
This has been of inestimable advantage to him during the years subsequent to
that time. After this service he invested his hard earnings in a bunch of cattle
and gave his attention to their care for two years, then selling them to good
advantage and investing in sheep. He is still following sheep raising, in
which industry, because of his practical knowledge and close attention to every
detail of his business, he is achieving a marked success, seeming to be yoked to
prosperity's chariot. In 1896 he took up a homestead where he still lives and
where he maintains the headquarters for his sheep industry, having now
between two and three thousand head.
     His marriage took place in Pendleton, on October 16, 1895, when Miss
Virginia Lightfoot became his wife. She is a native of this county, whose
father, S. G. Lightfoot, is spoken of in another portion of this volume. The
union was crowned by the advent of one child, Morvia F., born September 18,
1900.  Mr. Chapman now lives in Spring Hollow, four miles north from Gurdane P.
O., while his father, A. J. Chapman, who was formerly a miller in Walla Walla,
now resides on Butter creek.  Notwithstanding the close attention that he has
paid to his business matters, still our subject has found time to take care of
all the detailed work of a public office of the district where he lives, being
called thereto by the franchises of his fellow citizens, and in which he has by
his characteristic faithfulness and integrity conserved the interests of the
people so thoroughly that he has won their perfect confidence and admiration.


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