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HERBERT S. CHAPMAN, M. D.
A native son of California who is
steadily forging ahead in his profession is Dr. Herbert S. Chapman, a member of
the surgical staff of the Stockton Emergency Hospital, whose training and
experience fitted him for general practice.
He was born in Clayton, Contra Costa County, on April 7, 1892, a son of
Charles E., also a native of Contra Costa County. Grandfather George Oliver Chapman was a
native of Kentucky who came to California in 1843, while the great-grandmother,
Mrs. Tarwater, residing in Contra Costa County at the
age of one hundred years, came to California in 1839.
Herbert S. Chapman attended the
Contra Costa public schools and graduated from the Concord high school. Entering Stanford University he was graduated
with the class of 1914 with an A. B. degree; and three years later, in 1917,
received his M. D. degree. While in the
university he was instructor in medicine and physiology. After a post-graduate course in the
Rockefeller Institute, and a special course in the Carrel-Dakin College on sterilization
of wounds, he entered the Phipps Institute in Philadelphia. Later he received a commission as lieutenant
in the U. S. Navy and saw active service overseas during the World War,
spending two years with the mine-laying division in the North Sea; for fourteen
months he was attached to the Base Hospital No. 2, a Stanford University unit,
located at Strathpeffer, Scotland. Upon his return to the United States, he took
a post-graduate course in surgery at the New York Post Graduate Hospital; then
returning to California, he spent two months in the clinics at Stanford
studying skin diseases, thus extending and widening his experience and
knowledge. Returning to Stockton, he
opened offices in the Yosemite Building where he is engaged in a steadily growing
practice.
Dr. Chapman’s marriage occurred on
July 24, 1920, and united him with Miss Luella Sibbard,
a native of Santa Rosa, California, and they are the parents of one son, Duff
Gordon. He is a member of Karl Ross Post
of the American Legion, a member of the Morning Star Lodge of Masons, the
Knights of Pythias and the Kiwanis Club of Stockton, being a member of the board
of trustees of the latter organization.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1420. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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