Joseph Gilbert Chapman

Chapman, Joseph Gilbert, was born at Kcffwich, New York, April 27, 1839, and died in St. Louis, October 9, 1897. He pursued his preparatory studies for college at Oxford Academy, and in 1856 entered Brown University, taking a full course and graduating in the class of 1860. The same year he came to St. Louis and entered into busings in connection with the established firm..of Chapman is: Thorp, extensive lumber manufacturers and dealers in St. Louis and Wisconsin, of which his father was the sanibr member, and whose business was afterward consolidated as the £au Claire Lumber Company. Mr. Chapimn thoroughly mastered the extensive operattOM of the company, and, on his father's death, in 1873, became vice president and representative of the business in St. Louis, which was the principal point of distribution of the product of their large mills and manufactories in Wisconsin. He was for fifteen years a trustee of Washington University, and in 1883 became second president of the board of control of the St. Louis Museum and School of Pine Arts, Avbn;c usefulness was largely increased by his generous gift of over fifty thousand dollars to its various collections and to the buildings and endowments. He married, October 21, 1868, Emma, second daughter of Honorable Hudson E. Bridge. They had one child, Isabel, now the wife of J. Lawrence Manran, of St. Louis.

Ohapter of Temperaiee and Wit*

Aoin*— A temperance society formed in Buffalo, New York, in 1855. by H. D. Moone and others, who instituted there Mount Sitai Chapter. Mr. Moone came to St. Louis later and on September 5, 1859, organized Mount Vernon Chapter of Temperance and Wisdom. This institution became one of the most li:' mous of Western temperance societies and continued in existence until 1891. It had an attractive ritual and some of its public installation of officers were notable events.

**Charoals.*'— A name given to one of two factions into which the Rcpufdican party of Missouri was divided by the removal of General John C. Fremont from the Western Department by President Lincoln in 1861. The "Charcoals" were the radical followers of General Fremont, who favored extreme measures to crush the rebellion, and advocated the immediate emancipation of all slaves by a proclamation of the President. Republicans had previously been christened, in decision. "RIack Rcpublican>." I)because of their sympathy with the negroes and their Opposition to slavery. The "Charcoals"

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