USMA Class of 1871. Cullum No. 3442.
He was the son of Henley Wheelock Chapman and Jane Harris Chapman.
On October 9, 1893 as William Henry Henley Chapman, he married Margaret Myler McCaskey at Fort Assiniboine, Chouteau, Montana.
They were the parents of three children.
Forty-Third Annual Reunion Of The Association of the Graduates Of The United States Military Academy At West Point, New York, June 11th, 1912, Seemann & Peters Inc., Saginaw, Michigan, 1912.
William Henry Henley Chapman
No. 3442. Class of 1871.
Died, December 18, 1911, at Fort Douglas, Utah, aged 45.
Captain William H.H. Chapman, commanding Company F, 20th United States Infantry, died at Fort Douglas, Utah, on December 18th, 1911. He had been ill less than one week with acute Nephritis. He was born in Wisconsin and appointed to West Point from the same state, June 16, 1887 and joined the 20th Infantry as a Second Lieutenant upon his graduation from the Academy, June 12th, 1891 and all his service, up to the time of his death, was with that regiment, save a little over a year with the Twenty-fifth Infantry.
Captain Chapman served creditably throughout the Cuban Campaign with Company B, 20th Infantry, taking command of the same July 2nd, when his Captain, H.B. Moon was wounded. He also served through three foreign tours of the Twentieth – twice in the Philippines (1899-1902, 1903-1906) and in the Hawaiian Islands (1909-1911), reaching Fort Douglas, Utah, just two months exactly before the day of his death. He was Regimental Commissary and Quartermaster, November 1898 to February 1901 and again Regimental Quartermaster, 1907-1909.
Captain Chapman was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, August 17th, 1866 and came from one of the most distinguished families of soldiers in this country. A Chapman has been in every war in which the United States has participated since and including the Revolution.
He was a member of the Society of Cincinnati and was eligible to membership in the Aztec and Loyal Legion and the many other Military orders.
His grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel William Chapman graduated from West Point in 1831.
Captain Chapman is survived by his widow, eldest daughter of Major General and Mrs. William S. McCaskey and three sons, Henley – nearly eighteen – William, sixteen and Charles, seven years.
USMA Class of 1871. Cullum No. 3442.
He was the son of Henley Wheelock Chapman and Jane Harris Chapman.
On October 9, 1893 as William Henry Henley Chapman, he married Margaret Myler McCaskey at Fort Assiniboine, Chouteau, Montana.
They were the parents of three children.
Forty-Third Annual Reunion Of The Association of the Graduates Of The United States Military Academy At West Point, New York, June 11th, 1912, Seemann & Peters Inc., Saginaw, Michigan, 1912.
William Henry Henley Chapman
No. 3442. Class of 1871.
Died, December 18, 1911, at Fort Douglas, Utah, aged 45.
Captain William H.H. Chapman, commanding Company F, 20th United States Infantry, died at Fort Douglas, Utah, on December 18th, 1911. He had been ill less than one week with acute Nephritis. He was born in Wisconsin and appointed to West Point from the same state, June 16, 1887 and joined the 20th Infantry as a Second Lieutenant upon his graduation from the Academy, June 12th, 1891 and all his service, up to the time of his death, was with that regiment, save a little over a year with the Twenty-fifth Infantry.
Captain Chapman served creditably throughout the Cuban Campaign with Company B, 20th Infantry, taking command of the same July 2nd, when his Captain, H.B. Moon was wounded. He also served through three foreign tours of the Twentieth – twice in the Philippines (1899-1902, 1903-1906) and in the Hawaiian Islands (1909-1911), reaching Fort Douglas, Utah, just two months exactly before the day of his death. He was Regimental Commissary and Quartermaster, November 1898 to February 1901 and again Regimental Quartermaster, 1907-1909.
Captain Chapman was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, August 17th, 1866 and came from one of the most distinguished families of soldiers in this country. A Chapman has been in every war in which the United States has participated since and including the Revolution.
He was a member of the Society of Cincinnati and was eligible to membership in the Aztec and Loyal Legion and the many other Military orders.
His grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel William Chapman graduated from West Point in 1831.
Captain Chapman is survived by his widow, eldest daughter of Major General and Mrs. William S. McCaskey and three sons, Henley – nearly eighteen – William, sixteen and Charles, seven years.
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