ERNEST B. CHAPPELL

Sacramento County

Biographies

ERNEST B. CHAPPELL

ERNEST B. CHAPPELL.--An aggressively progressive hotel manager of exceptionally valuable experience, Ernest B. Chappell easily makes the well-appointed St. Francis Hotel, of Sacramento, one of the most popular hostelries in northern California. He was born at Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1880, the son of George H. and Tresa (Trefee) Chappell, who came out to California when he was four or five years of age. Previously, George H. Chappell had been at Boulder Creek, where for a number of years he had conducted a general merchandise business and a hotel; and now that he has put behind him many years of hard, intelligent and honest labor, he is able to live in retirement, in Sacramento, and quietly enjoy the companionship of appreciating friends. The companion of these earlier years, his devoted wife, passed away years since, mourned by the many who had come to admire and love her for her fine womanly qualities.

After having benefited by instruction of the public school, Ernest Chappell learned the trade of an interior decorator, which he followed for twenty-five years; and for eighteen years he was in business with Schneider, Chappell & Jones, later for eight years being a member of the firm of Chappell & Lubbard, painting contractors, in which he was successful. In July, 1922, he was made manager of the St. Francis Hotel, or apartment house, owned by the city, and the favor with which the institution is regarded is the best proof of his success as manager. He belongs to the Rotary Club, and the Builders’ Exchange; and in politics he is Republican.

Mr. Chappell married, in 1904, Miss Pearl Lubbard, an accomplished native daughter, and they have had one child, Thelma Bernice. Mr. Chappell likes fishing but his real hobby is bowling.

Transcribed by Priscilla Delventhal.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 979. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.