from 'Standard History of Lorain County' Geo Frederick Wright;
Erie D. Chapman. The actual administration of the Elyria post office has been in the hands of Erie D. Chapman now for more than seventeen years. As assistant postmaster he has every detail of that office at his fingers' ends, and has proved himself vigilant, diligent, proficient and well worthy of the responsibilities reposed in him. He is one of the best known citizens of Lorain County and possesses the substantial character and solid ability for which the Chapman family have always been noted. He is a son of Harlan P. and Mary C. (Pitkin) Chapman, and a member of the noted Chapman family whose line has been traced on preceding pages since if was first established in America upwards of 300 years ago.
Born at Brunswick, Medina County, Ohio, March 21, 1868, Erie D. Chapman as a boy attended the public schools both of Elyria and Oberlin, and is a graduate of the Oberlin Business College. His practical career began as clerk in a dry goods store in Oberlin, and from there he came to Elyria and during the four years his father was county treasurer, during the '90s, was chief assistant in that office. O. F. Carter of Oberlin succeeded Harlan P. Chapman as county treasurer, and the latter's son remained on duty under County Treasurer Carter for a little over six months, from September to March.
It was in March, 1898, that Mr. Chapman became identified with the Elyria post office as assistant postmaster. At that time I. H. Griswold was postmaster. In a short time he had made himself master of the varied details of the local office, and made his services so invaluable that he was retained in the same position by J. H. Bath, who succeeded Mr. Griswold, and when in 1913, following a change from republican to democratic administration, D. W. Seward was appointed under the new regime, Mr. Chapman was retained as assistant, and his work has been such that he ought to be held in that office as long as he desires it. In March, 1915, he completed seventeen years of continuous service, and during that time had helped reorganize the local management to provide for the successive improvements made in postal affairs, first looking after the arrangements of rural delivery routes and in more recent years having a part in the introduction of the postal savings and parcel post features to the local service.
In politics Mr. Chapman is a stanch Republican, and has served on a number of committees of the party. Fraternally he is affiliated with King Solomon Lodge No. 56, F. & A. M., at Elyria, with the Royal Arch Chapters, the Council, with the Knight Templar Commandery and with Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland. He is a charter member of Lodge No. 465 of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, belongs to the H. P. Chapman Camp, Sons of Veterans, which was organized and named in honor of his father in January, 1911. He is also a charter member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce. Though his duties confine him closely he takes his recreations out of doors in fishing and hunting trips whenever possible.
On April 20, 1898, Mr. Chapman married Miss Minnie Elizabeth Tbayer (surname is spelled THAYER) of Elyria. Her father, James Thayer, is now living with Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, and her mother died here several years ago. They were Ohio people, lived near Zanesville for a number of years, but Mrs. Chapman was born in Medina County. She was educated in the Elyria public schools, and as a musician has a reputation of more than local note. She attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland School of Music, and also took instruction under private teachers at Cleveland both in piano and violin. An honor that recently came to her was her appointment as director of the Elyria Extension Department of the Sherwood Music School of Chicago. The Sherwood Music School, which was founded by the late William H. Sherwood, whose reputation as America's greatest pianist is hardly disputed, is the only conservatory of established reputation to adopt the plan of extension work, though several of the noted European schools of music have long applied that system. Mrs. Chapman for the past ten years, since 1905, has been leader of the theater orchestra of Elyria, and has conducted a large class of students in the study of violin and piano. It was her standing in local musical circles which led to her selection by the Sherwood School to take charge of the local branch of its extension department. This extension department affords the prestige and experience of one of the best known conservatories to Elyria, so that local students, without the expense involved in months of residence away from home, may secure the advantages of metropolitan conservatory training and earn credits and diplomas that entitled them to recognition for proficiency in their chosen art. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman are the parents of three sons: Harlan Thayer, who is in the U. S. Navy, Erie Degrass and Max Joslyn. They were all born in Elyria and are the two youngest students in the graded schools of that city.
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Erie D. Chapman. The actual administration of the Elyria post office has been in the hands of Erie D. Chapman now for more than seventeen years. As assistant postmaster he has every detail of that office at his fingers' ends, and has proved himself vigilant, diligent, proficient and well worthy of the responsibilities reposed in him. He is one of the best known citizens of Lorain County and possesses the substantial character and solid ability for which the Chapman family have always been noted. He is a son of Harlan P. and Mary C. (Pitkin) Chapman, and a member of the noted Chapman family whose line has been traced on preceding pages since if was first established in America upwards of 300 years ago.
Born at Brunswick, Medina County, Ohio, March 21, 1868, Erie D. Chapman as a boy attended the public schools both of Elyria and Oberlin, and is a graduate of the Oberlin Business College. His practical career began as clerk in a dry goods store in Oberlin, and from there he came to Elyria and during the four years his father was county treasurer, during the '90s, was chief assistant in that office. O. F. Carter of Oberlin succeeded Harlan P. Chapman as county treasurer, and the latter's son remained on duty under County Treasurer Carter for a little over six months, from September to March.
It was in March, 1898, that Mr. Chapman became identified with the Elyria post office as assistant postmaster. At that time I. H. Griswold was postmaster. In a short time he had made himself master of the varied details of the local office, and made his services so invaluable that he was retained in the same position by J. H. Bath, who succeeded Mr. Griswold, and when in 1913, following a change from republican to democratic administration, D. W. Seward was appointed under the new regime, Mr. Chapman was retained as assistant, and his work has been such that he ought to be held in that office as long as he desires it. In March, 1915, he completed seventeen years of continuous service, and during that time had helped reorganize the local management to provide for the successive improvements made in postal affairs, first looking after the arrangements of rural delivery routes and in more recent years having a part in the introduction of the postal savings and parcel post features to the local service.
In politics Mr. Chapman is a stanch Republican, and has served on a number of committees of the party. Fraternally he is affiliated with King Solomon Lodge No. 56, F. & A. M., at Elyria, with the Royal Arch Chapters, the Council, with the Knight Templar Commandery and with Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland. He is a charter member of Lodge No. 465 of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, belongs to the H. P. Chapman Camp, Sons of Veterans, which was organized and named in honor of his father in January, 1911. He is also a charter member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce. Though his duties confine him closely he takes his recreations out of doors in fishing and hunting trips whenever possible.
On April 20, 1898, Mr. Chapman married Miss Minnie Elizabeth Tbayer (surname is spelled THAYER) of Elyria. Her father, James Thayer, is now living with Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, and her mother died here several years ago. They were Ohio people, lived near Zanesville for a number of years, but Mrs. Chapman was born in Medina County. She was educated in the Elyria public schools, and as a musician has a reputation of more than local note. She attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland School of Music, and also took instruction under private teachers at Cleveland both in piano and violin. An honor that recently came to her was her appointment as director of the Elyria Extension Department of the Sherwood Music School of Chicago. The Sherwood Music School, which was founded by the late William H. Sherwood, whose reputation as America's greatest pianist is hardly disputed, is the only conservatory of established reputation to adopt the plan of extension work, though several of the noted European schools of music have long applied that system. Mrs. Chapman for the past ten years, since 1905, has been leader of the theater orchestra of Elyria, and has conducted a large class of students in the study of violin and piano. It was her standing in local musical circles which led to her selection by the Sherwood School to take charge of the local branch of its extension department. This extension department affords the prestige and experience of one of the best known conservatories to Elyria, so that local students, without the expense involved in months of residence away from home, may secure the advantages of metropolitan conservatory training and earn credits and diplomas that entitled them to recognition for proficiency in their chosen art. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman are the parents of three sons: Harlan Thayer, who is in the U. S. Navy, Erie Degrass and Max Joslyn. They were all born in Elyria and are the two youngest students in the graded schools of that city.
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from 'Standard History of Lorain County' Geo Frederick Wright;
Erie D. Chapman. The actual administration of the Elyria post office has been in the hands of Erie D. Chapman now for more than seventeen years. As assistant postmaster he has every detail of that office at his fingers' ends, and has proved himself vigilant, diligent, proficient and well worthy of the responsibilities reposed in him. He is one of the best known citizens of Lorain County and possesses the substantial character and solid ability for which the Chapman family have always been noted. He is a son of Harlan P. and Mary C. (Pitkin) Chapman, and a member of the noted Chapman family whose line has been traced on preceding pages since if was first established in America upwards of 300 years ago.
Born at Brunswick, Medina County, Ohio, March 21, 1868, Erie D. Chapman as a boy attended the public schools both of Elyria and Oberlin, and is a graduate of the Oberlin Business College. His practical career began as clerk in a dry goods store in Oberlin, and from there he came to Elyria and during the four years his father was county treasurer, during the '90s, was chief assistant in that office. O. F. Carter of Oberlin succeeded Harlan P. Chapman as county treasurer, and the latter's son remained on duty under County Treasurer Carter for a little over six months, from September to March.
It was in March, 1898, that Mr. Chapman became identified with the Elyria post office as assistant postmaster. At that time I. H. Griswold was postmaster. In a short time he had made himself master of the varied details of the local office, and made his services so invaluable that he was retained in the same position by J. H. Bath, who succeeded Mr. Griswold, and when in 1913, following a change from republican to democratic administration, D. W. Seward was appointed under the new regime, Mr. Chapman was retained as assistant, and his work has been such that he ought to be held in that office as long as he desires it. In March, 1915, he completed seventeen years of continuous service, and during that time had helped reorganize the local management to provide for the successive improvements made in postal affairs, first looking after the arrangements of rural delivery routes and in more recent years having a part in the introduction of the postal savings and parcel post features to the local service.
In politics Mr. Chapman is a stanch Republican, and has served on a number of committees of the party. Fraternally he is affiliated with King Solomon Lodge No. 56, F. & A. M., at Elyria, with the Royal Arch Chapters, the Council, with the Knight Templar Commandery and with Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland. He is a charter member of Lodge No. 465 of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, belongs to the H. P. Chapman Camp, Sons of Veterans, which was organized and named in honor of his father in January, 1911. He is also a charter member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce. Though his duties confine him closely he takes his recreations out of doors in fishing and hunting trips whenever possible.
On April 20, 1898, Mr. Chapman married Miss Minnie Elizabeth Tbayer (surname is spelled THAYER) of Elyria. Her father, James Thayer, is now living with Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, and her mother died here several years ago. They were Ohio people, lived near Zanesville for a number of years, but Mrs. Chapman was born in Medina County. She was educated in the Elyria public schools, and as a musician has a reputation of more than local note. She attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland School of Music, and also took instruction under private teachers at Cleveland both in piano and violin. An honor that recently came to her was her appointment as director of the Elyria Extension Department of the Sherwood Music School of Chicago. The Sherwood Music School, which was founded by the late William H. Sherwood, whose reputation as America's greatest pianist is hardly disputed, is the only conservatory of established reputation to adopt the plan of extension work, though several of the noted European schools of music have long applied that system. Mrs. Chapman for the past ten years, since 1905, has been leader of the theater orchestra of Elyria, and has conducted a large class of students in the study of violin and piano. It was her standing in local musical circles which led to her selection by the Sherwood School to take charge of the local branch of its extension department. This extension department affords the prestige and experience of one of the best known conservatories to Elyria, so that local students, without the expense involved in months of residence away from home, may secure the advantages of metropolitan conservatory training and earn credits and diplomas that entitled them to recognition for proficiency in their chosen art. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman are the parents of three sons: Harlan Thayer, who is in the U. S. Navy, Erie Degrass and Max Joslyn. They were all born in Elyria and are the two youngest students in the graded schools of that city.
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Erie D. Chapman. The actual administration of the Elyria post office has been in the hands of Erie D. Chapman now for more than seventeen years. As assistant postmaster he has every detail of that office at his fingers' ends, and has proved himself vigilant, diligent, proficient and well worthy of the responsibilities reposed in him. He is one of the best known citizens of Lorain County and possesses the substantial character and solid ability for which the Chapman family have always been noted. He is a son of Harlan P. and Mary C. (Pitkin) Chapman, and a member of the noted Chapman family whose line has been traced on preceding pages since if was first established in America upwards of 300 years ago.
Born at Brunswick, Medina County, Ohio, March 21, 1868, Erie D. Chapman as a boy attended the public schools both of Elyria and Oberlin, and is a graduate of the Oberlin Business College. His practical career began as clerk in a dry goods store in Oberlin, and from there he came to Elyria and during the four years his father was county treasurer, during the '90s, was chief assistant in that office. O. F. Carter of Oberlin succeeded Harlan P. Chapman as county treasurer, and the latter's son remained on duty under County Treasurer Carter for a little over six months, from September to March.
It was in March, 1898, that Mr. Chapman became identified with the Elyria post office as assistant postmaster. At that time I. H. Griswold was postmaster. In a short time he had made himself master of the varied details of the local office, and made his services so invaluable that he was retained in the same position by J. H. Bath, who succeeded Mr. Griswold, and when in 1913, following a change from republican to democratic administration, D. W. Seward was appointed under the new regime, Mr. Chapman was retained as assistant, and his work has been such that he ought to be held in that office as long as he desires it. In March, 1915, he completed seventeen years of continuous service, and during that time had helped reorganize the local management to provide for the successive improvements made in postal affairs, first looking after the arrangements of rural delivery routes and in more recent years having a part in the introduction of the postal savings and parcel post features to the local service.
In politics Mr. Chapman is a stanch Republican, and has served on a number of committees of the party. Fraternally he is affiliated with King Solomon Lodge No. 56, F. & A. M., at Elyria, with the Royal Arch Chapters, the Council, with the Knight Templar Commandery and with Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland. He is a charter member of Lodge No. 465 of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, belongs to the H. P. Chapman Camp, Sons of Veterans, which was organized and named in honor of his father in January, 1911. He is also a charter member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce. Though his duties confine him closely he takes his recreations out of doors in fishing and hunting trips whenever possible.
On April 20, 1898, Mr. Chapman married Miss Minnie Elizabeth Tbayer (surname is spelled THAYER) of Elyria. Her father, James Thayer, is now living with Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, and her mother died here several years ago. They were Ohio people, lived near Zanesville for a number of years, but Mrs. Chapman was born in Medina County. She was educated in the Elyria public schools, and as a musician has a reputation of more than local note. She attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland School of Music, and also took instruction under private teachers at Cleveland both in piano and violin. An honor that recently came to her was her appointment as director of the Elyria Extension Department of the Sherwood Music School of Chicago. The Sherwood Music School, which was founded by the late William H. Sherwood, whose reputation as America's greatest pianist is hardly disputed, is the only conservatory of established reputation to adopt the plan of extension work, though several of the noted European schools of music have long applied that system. Mrs. Chapman for the past ten years, since 1905, has been leader of the theater orchestra of Elyria, and has conducted a large class of students in the study of violin and piano. It was her standing in local musical circles which led to her selection by the Sherwood School to take charge of the local branch of its extension department. This extension department affords the prestige and experience of one of the best known conservatories to Elyria, so that local students, without the expense involved in months of residence away from home, may secure the advantages of metropolitan conservatory training and earn credits and diplomas that entitled them to recognition for proficiency in their chosen art. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman are the parents of three sons: Harlan Thayer, who is in the U. S. Navy, Erie Degrass and Max Joslyn. They were all born in Elyria and are the two youngest students in the graded schools of that city.
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