H. A. CHAPMAN

    H. A. Chapman, a farmer, is a son of Abner and Relief (Baldwin) Chapman, natives of Vermont.  He, with his youngest brother, David, came on foot to this State in 1810, and located in Franklin County, Ohio, and the following year removed to this county and engaged in teaching school near Plain City, having taught first at his own house, and was the first educator in this whole section of country; he taught off and on for twenty years.  During the time he was thus engaged, he done surveying, the most of which was performed in Logan County, Ohio.  He also served in the capacity of Justice of the Peace, and was Captain at one time of a company of Home Guards.  Six of his children grew to manhood and womanhood, but the following only are living: Annis, Samuel D. and H. Amass.  He died in 1864, at the age of seventy-four years.  She died in 1878.  In early life, he kept a hotel and sold whisky, and, becoming imbued with the principles of temperance, he burst his barrels and let the vile stuff escape.  The subject of this sketch was born in Jerome Township in 1825.  In 1862, he enlisted in Company 1, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served till the close of the war.  In 1852, he was married to Elizabeth H., daughter of Charles Chapman, who bore him five children, two of whom are living, viz.: Darius A. and Fred F. Mrs. C. died in 18- His second marriage was celebrated April 16, 1868, to Elizabeth, daughter of John Wesley Hicks, who bore him two children, one living, viz., Earnest.  She died in February 1882.  She was a graduate of Oberlin College, and taught school twenty-six years, having begun when only sixteen years old.  She was an active worker in the church, and during the late war she labored incessantly for the comfort and welfare of our soldiers.  Mr. C. and his deceased wife belonged to the Presbyterian Church, to which he has been connected many years.