Riverside
County
Biographies
GLEN WILLIS CHAPMAN
Glen Willis Chapman is widely known
as vice president and manager of the Security Title Insurance & Guarantee
Company of Riverside, with which he has thus been officially identified for the
past eight years. He was born on a farm
in Clay County, Kansas, February 18, 1885, his parents being Dwight L. and
Emily (Ingersoll) Chapman, the former a native of Ohio. The mother was related to the famous author,
Robert G. Ingersoll, and also to the publisher of “Ingersoll’s Century Annals
of San Bernardino County,” which appeared in 1904.
Glen W. Chapman was a lad of nine
years when in 1894, following the death of his father; he came to California
with his widowed mother and the other members of the family, numbering five
children. He and a brother are the only
ones now living. He attended the grammar
and high schools of Escondido, where the family settled on coming to this
state, and in 1907 became a member of the 1911 class of the University of
California at Berkeley. He also pursued
a business college course in Riverside and for five or six years thereafter was
connected with the Russ Lumber & Mill Company. In 1912 he entered the service of the
Riverside Abstract Company, the predecessor of the Security Title Insurance
& Guarantee Company, which was incorporated in 1920, Mr. Chapman being made
secretary of the new organization at that time.
Four years later, in 1924, he was chosen vice president and general
manager, in which official capacity he has since served. The Security Title Insurance & Guarantee
Company occupies handsome quarters on the ground floor of its own building at
3602 Eighth Street in Riverside.
In 1909 Mr. Chapman married Mae L.
Dinsmore, who passed away leaving three children: Ruth, Harold and Doris. For his second wife he chose Helen S.
Rickard, a graduate of Mount Holyoke Seminary, who was for some year’s dean of
women and instructor in music and harmony at Junior College of Riverside,
California. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman are the
parents of two children, Orville and Susannah.
Actively and helpfully interested in
civic affairs, Mr. Chapman is past president of the Riverside Welfare
Association and served as chairman of its 1931 campaign. He is a charter member and ex-secretary of
the Lions Club and for ten years has been treasurer of the First Baptist
Church. His hobby is motion picture work
and he is also very fond of travel, having made extensive foreign tours. Mr. Chapman is a hard-working, affable
gentleman who enjoys high standing in business, social and civic circles of
Riverside.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. III, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 403-404, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles,
Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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