Mariana Willets (Wright) Chapman was the daughter of Dr. Aron and Mary (Willets) Wright. They were Quakers. Mariana attended Friends Institute, later called Friends Seminary, until her family moved in the early 1850s to Springboro, Warren County Ohio. She was the wife of Noah Haines Chapman. They were married Springboro Monthly Meeting June 24, 1864.
Obituary
The New York Times
Tuesday, November 12, 1907
CHAPMAN.--Mrs. Mariana Wright Chapman died at her country home, Port Washington, Long Island, on Saturday, in her sixty-fifth year. She was the wife of Noah H. Chapman, and had lived in Brooklyn since 1880. She was a member of the Society of Friends, and had been closely identified with many of the movements in the interest of women. She was president of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association for several years, and was for a time also head of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. When Governor Theodore Roosevelt recommended to the New York State Legislature that it should extend some measure of representation to women, Mrs. Chapman was one of the women who were summoned to Albany to confer with him. She also spoke before the Legislature on this subject several times. Mrs. Chapman was one of the chief supporters for the bill, which appointed matrons in police stations. She was also active in other lines of prison reform.
Obituary
New-York Tribune
Monday, November 11, 1907, Page 7
George Mason Univeristy's History News Network
Press Release - August 6, 2007
The Friends History Library of Swarthmore College is the new home for a rare collection of papers belonging to Mariana Wright Chapman. This material had not been available to the public until now. Among the Mariana W. Chapman Family Papers are dozens of letters from famous women's rights advocates. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Carrie Chapman Catt. In addition Chapman kept newsclippings, photographs and detailed journals. One journal entry describes a lunch at Stanton's house with Susan B. Anthony on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Fall, New York. The collection is a gift from Anne Chapman Booth, Chapman's granddaughter and a member of Swarthmore's Class of 1932. When Friends Historical Library archivist Pat O'Donnell met with Booth, "she was literally bringing shoeboxes of letters out from under her bed."
--Examples:
Letter from Susan B. Anthony to "My Dear Friend, Mariana" - March 8, 1897
Letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to "Dear Mrs. Chapman" - December 7
Letter from Carrie Chapman Catt to "Dear Mrs. Chapman" - January 5, 1896
Obituary
The New York Times
Tuesday, November 12, 1907
CHAPMAN.--Mrs. Mariana Wright Chapman died at her country home, Port Washington, Long Island, on Saturday, in her sixty-fifth year. She was the wife of Noah H. Chapman, and had lived in Brooklyn since 1880. She was a member of the Society of Friends, and had been closely identified with many of the movements in the interest of women. She was president of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association for several years, and was for a time also head of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. When Governor Theodore Roosevelt recommended to the New York State Legislature that it should extend some measure of representation to women, Mrs. Chapman was one of the women who were summoned to Albany to confer with him. She also spoke before the Legislature on this subject several times. Mrs. Chapman was one of the chief supporters for the bill, which appointed matrons in police stations. She was also active in other lines of prison reform.
Obituary
New-York Tribune
Monday, November 11, 1907, Page 7
George Mason Univeristy's History News Network
Press Release - August 6, 2007
The Friends History Library of Swarthmore College is the new home for a rare collection of papers belonging to Mariana Wright Chapman. This material had not been available to the public until now. Among the Mariana W. Chapman Family Papers are dozens of letters from famous women's rights advocates. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Carrie Chapman Catt. In addition Chapman kept newsclippings, photographs and detailed journals. One journal entry describes a lunch at Stanton's house with Susan B. Anthony on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Fall, New York. The collection is a gift from Anne Chapman Booth, Chapman's granddaughter and a member of Swarthmore's Class of 1932. When Friends Historical Library archivist Pat O'Donnell met with Booth, "she was literally bringing shoeboxes of letters out from under her bed."
--Examples:
Letter from Susan B. Anthony to "My Dear Friend, Mariana" - March 8, 1897
Letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to "Dear Mrs. Chapman" - December 7
Letter from Carrie Chapman Catt to "Dear Mrs. Chapman" - January 5, 1896
Mariana Willets (Wright) Chapman was the daughter of Dr. Aron and Mary (Willets) Wright. They were Quakers. Mariana attended Friends Institute, later called Friends Seminary, until her family moved in the early 1850s to Springboro, Warren County Ohio. She was the wife of Noah Haines Chapman. They were married Springboro Monthly Meeting June 24, 1864.
Obituary
The New York Times
Tuesday, November 12, 1907
CHAPMAN.--Mrs. Mariana Wright Chapman died at her country home, Port Washington, Long Island, on Saturday, in her sixty-fifth year. She was the wife of Noah H. Chapman, and had lived in Brooklyn since 1880. She was a member of the Society of Friends, and had been closely identified with many of the movements in the interest of women. She was president of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association for several years, and was for a time also head of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. When Governor Theodore Roosevelt recommended to the New York State Legislature that it should extend some measure of representation to women, Mrs. Chapman was one of the women who were summoned to Albany to confer with him. She also spoke before the Legislature on this subject several times. Mrs. Chapman was one of the chief supporters for the bill, which appointed matrons in police stations. She was also active in other lines of prison reform.
Obituary
New-York Tribune
Monday, November 11, 1907, Page 7
George Mason Univeristy's History News Network
Press Release - August 6, 2007
The Friends History Library of Swarthmore College is the new home for a rare collection of papers belonging to Mariana Wright Chapman. This material had not been available to the public until now. Among the Mariana W. Chapman Family Papers are dozens of letters from famous women's rights advocates. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Carrie Chapman Catt. In addition Chapman kept newsclippings, photographs and detailed journals. One journal entry describes a lunch at Stanton's house with Susan B. Anthony on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Fall, New York. The collection is a gift from Anne Chapman Booth, Chapman's granddaughter and a member of Swarthmore's Class of 1932. When Friends Historical Library archivist Pat O'Donnell met with Booth, "she was literally bringing shoeboxes of letters out from under her bed."
--Examples:
Letter from Susan B. Anthony to "My Dear Friend, Mariana" - March 8, 1897
Letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to "Dear Mrs. Chapman" - December 7
Letter from Carrie Chapman Catt to "Dear Mrs. Chapman" - January 5, 1896
Obituary
The New York Times
Tuesday, November 12, 1907
CHAPMAN.--Mrs. Mariana Wright Chapman died at her country home, Port Washington, Long Island, on Saturday, in her sixty-fifth year. She was the wife of Noah H. Chapman, and had lived in Brooklyn since 1880. She was a member of the Society of Friends, and had been closely identified with many of the movements in the interest of women. She was president of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association for several years, and was for a time also head of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. When Governor Theodore Roosevelt recommended to the New York State Legislature that it should extend some measure of representation to women, Mrs. Chapman was one of the women who were summoned to Albany to confer with him. She also spoke before the Legislature on this subject several times. Mrs. Chapman was one of the chief supporters for the bill, which appointed matrons in police stations. She was also active in other lines of prison reform.
Obituary
New-York Tribune
Monday, November 11, 1907, Page 7
George Mason Univeristy's History News Network
Press Release - August 6, 2007
The Friends History Library of Swarthmore College is the new home for a rare collection of papers belonging to Mariana Wright Chapman. This material had not been available to the public until now. Among the Mariana W. Chapman Family Papers are dozens of letters from famous women's rights advocates. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Carrie Chapman Catt. In addition Chapman kept newsclippings, photographs and detailed journals. One journal entry describes a lunch at Stanton's house with Susan B. Anthony on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Fall, New York. The collection is a gift from Anne Chapman Booth, Chapman's granddaughter and a member of Swarthmore's Class of 1932. When Friends Historical Library archivist Pat O'Donnell met with Booth, "she was literally bringing shoeboxes of letters out from under her bed."
--Examples:
Letter from Susan B. Anthony to "My Dear Friend, Mariana" - March 8, 1897
Letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to "Dear Mrs. Chapman" - December 7
Letter from Carrie Chapman Catt to "Dear Mrs. Chapman" - January 5, 1896
Bio by: MaryJane Haight-Eckert
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Mariana W. Chapman
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