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Born 1837, Edinburg Township
From History of Portage County, Ohio (1885)
THOMAS P. CHAPMAN, farmer, P. O. Edinburgh, was born in Edinburg Township, this county, February 5, 1837, son of James and Mary E. (Inghram) Chapman, the former born in England January 15, 1800, came to America in 1829, the latter born in Chester County, Penn., January 6, 1811. They were married March 10, 1831, and during the same year they came to Columbiana County, Ohio, and in 1834 to Edinburg, this county, where they remained until their death. The father died April 8, 1872, the mother November 9, 1879. Our subject was married November 26, 1863, to Mary M. Knight, born in Ellsworth, Mahoning Co., Ohio, August 2, 1844, daughter of James and Susan Knight, the former born in Chester County, Penn., May 20, 1812, the latter in Ellsworth, Mahoning County, June 18, 1818. Mr. and Mrs. Knight first settled in Mahoning County, Ohio, and thence removed to Ashtabula County, where they remained some time; then returned to Mahoning County and from there moved to Newton Falls, Trumbull County, in 1856, where they lived for several years, when they finally settled in this county in April, 1865, and here died, August 28, 1884, and May 25, 1883, respectively. To Mr. and Mrs. Chapman have been born two children: James W., born June 27, 1865, and Lina M, born September 6, 1867. Mr. Chapman has been a farmer all his life, and owns forty-eight acres of land where he and his family reside. He has been for eighteen years a member of the I. O. O. F.
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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