The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 712 

CHARLES L. CHAPPLE, M. D.

Fruit raising interests in the Tieton valley claim the attention of Dr. Charles
L. Chapple, who to some extent still follows the medical profession but limits
his practice to a small circle. A native of Beldenville, Wisconsin, Dr. Chapple
was born September 5, 1869, a son of William H. and Elizabeth (Phillips)
Chapple. The father's birth occurred in 1819. The mother was born in Canada and
was of French descent. John Chapple, the grandfather, took the family to Canada
about 1832 and in the country passed away. His son, William H. Chapple, in 1856
removed to Wisconsin. where he bought a farm and there spent the remainder of
his life, dying in 1892. He survived his wife for about nine years, her death
occurring in 1883.

Charles L. Chapple was reared under the parental roof and attended the common
schools. He was graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1892, at the age
of twenty-three, with the degree of B. L. He later turned his attention to
medicine and in 1898 was graduated from the medical department of that
institution. He then served for fourteen months as interne at the St. Barnabas
Hospital in Minneapolis and subsequently was for twelve years connected with the
State Hospital for the Insane at Rochester. Minnesota. In 1911 Dr. Chapple came
to Yakima county and bought twenty acres of land on the Tieton, his brother, B.
P. Chapple, also acquiring twenty acres adjoining. The Doctor now has fifteen
acres planted to apples, the remainder being under the plow. He has devoted
himself to the cultivation of his tract and is now comfortably situated.

On the 8th of October, 1905, Dr. Chapple was united in marriage to Miss Grace
Guernsey, who was born in Almond, Wisconsin, and is a daughter of George H. and
Miranda (Beare) Guernsey, natives of New York, the former born at Mount Upton
and the latter in Delaware county. In 1855 they removed to Wisconsin and the
father, who was a nurseryman in New York state, took up general farming in
Wisconsin. Both have passed away. Dr. and Mrs. Chapple have two children, a son
and a daughter, Guernsey Phillips and Helen Marion. They attended the
Presbyterian church, in the work of which they are helpfully interested.
Politically the Doctor is a republican as regards national politics but in local
affairs he prefers to follow his own judgment irrespective of party issues. Mrs.
Chapple is quite gifted along musical lines and is a popular teacher.
Fraternally Dr. Chapple is a Mason, belonging to the blue lodge, and he and his
wife are esteemed residents of Yakima county, being people of culture and
refinement.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
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