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Born 1839, Edinburg Township
From History of Portage County, Ohio (1885)
JOSEPH E. CHAPMAN, blacksmith, Edinburg, born in Edinburg Township, this county, June 17, 1839; son of James and Elizabeth Chapman; the former born in England in 1800, and died April 8, 1871; the latter born in Pennsylvania in 1811, and died November 9, 1880. They were married in Pennsylvania and moved to Columbiana County, Ohio, thence to this county in 1837, and remained here until their death. Our subject was thrice married, first to Susanna Grate, November 26, 1863 (she was born in this county in 1845, and died April 3, 1864). His second wife, to whom he was married February 28, 1865, was Carrie Patterson (born in Mahoning County, Ohio, February 28, 1847, died October 29, 1875), and his present wife, whom he married April 25, 1876, was Nettie Heller, born in Fostoria, Ohio, September 24, 1848. Mr. Chapman is the father of two children: Mary A. and Embia C., and resides at Edinburg, where he owns thirty two acres of land, on which he and his family reside.
As printed in History of Portage County, Ohio (1885). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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