Sacramento County
Biographies
LAWRENCE H.
CHAPMAN
L. H. CHAPMAN.--Possessing just the qualities which insure success, L. H. Chapman has spared no effort and, by indefatigable labor and attention to the wishes of the trade, has won the esteem and patronage of the public. Seventeen years ago he entered the firm of Friend & Terry Lumber Company as office boy and has won his way upward until he now occupies the position of manager of the firm. He was born in McHenry County, Ill., December 7, 1883, a son of Edgar and Ann (Heilman) Chapman.
L. H. Chapman received his education in the grammar and high schools of Cedar Falls, Iowa, whither his parents had removed when he was a young lad. He remained in Iowa at the family home until 1905, when he removed to California and located in Sacramento; directly on locating in Sacramento he entered the employ of Friend & Terry Lumber Company serving first as office boy, and then being steadily advanced until he became manager of the firm in 1921. From the first his interest in Sacramento was pronounced, and his faith in the future of the city has been emphatically and practically demonstrated.
The marriage of Mr. Chapman united him with Miss Dorothy Fletcher, a native of Massachusetts, and a graduate of Wellesley College. They are the parents of two children: Fletcher and Laurence, Jr. Mr. Chapman is a thirty-second degree Mason and also a member of the Shrine; locally he is affiliated with the Rotary and Sutter Clubs.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 918.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.