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GEORGE N. CHAPPELL
George N. Chappell, who accumulated
a substantial competence as a Kansas farmer, came to California in 1915 and
spent the remainder of his life in well earned retirement at Long Beach, where
he passed away March 22, 1932, at the venerable age of eighty-eight years. He was born in Shenango,
New York, January 20, 1844, and after completing his public school education in
the Empire state turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. When a youth of eighteen years he enlisted
for service in the Civil War as a member of Company E, One Hundred Fourteenth
New York Infantry, with which he fought until the cessation of hostilities
between the north and south, participating in many sanguinary engagements, in
one of which he was wounded. In after
years he maintained pleasant relations with his old army comrades as a member
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
When the country no longer needed
his military aid, Mr. Chappell removed westward from New York to Kansas, where
he developed a large farm to the cultivation of which he devoted his attention
throughout the remainder of his active career, meeting with a gratifying
measure of success in his agricultural undertakings. It was in 1915 that he retired from farming
pursuits and came to Long Beach, California, where he spent the evening of life
in a comfortable and attractive residence at 753 Rose Avenue. He was guided by the teachings of the Baptist
Church, in which he held membership, and he won the esteem and confidence all
of with whom he came in contact in the varied relations of life.
On April 12, 1874, in Kansas Mr.
Chappell was united in marriage with Miss Jane Baird, a native of Illinois, and
a daughter of Alexander and Mary Baird, who were pioneer farming people of that
state. Mr. and Mrs. Chappell became the
parents of three children: Mrs. Nellie
Campbell, of Bellflower, California, who has one child, Barron; Mrs. Ella
Manley, of Long Beach; and Mrs. Bonita Hammond, who has two children, Janet
Marie and George Merrill. Mrs. James
Chappell, the mother of the above named, resides in the old family home at 753
Rose Avenue in Long Beach and is a very active woman, with a keen interest in
affairs of the day and the things that concern the welfare of her children and
grandchildren.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 139-140, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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