Biographies and Obituaries
In loving memory
Reason S. Chapman
History of Daviess Counties
Goodspeed Publishing Company 1886
REASON S. CHAPMAN, a pioneer of Daviess County, Ind., a representative farmer and stock raiser of Harrison Township, is a native of Ohio, born near Cincinnati, February 3, 1814, son of Elijah and Elizabeth (Miller) Chapman. The family, who are of English-Dutch origin, came to Indiana in 1818. The father died in New Orleans about 1821. The mother was twice married, and died near Glendale, in 1831, in her eighty-fourth year. Subject grew to manhood in what was then an almost unbroken wilderness. He attended the early subscription schools, and later located on a farm near Glendale, where he continued to reside Until 1880, when he moved to his present place of residence in Harrison Township, where he owns 290 acres of land. He has been married three times, the first time, in 1823, to Polly Baldwin, who bore him nine children, six of whom are living. After fifteen years of wedded life Mrs. Chapman died. Mr. Chapman then married Caroline Lashley, who died in February, 1880, leaving four children. The following April , Mr. Chapman took for his third wife Mrs. Lucy A. (Cook) Wilson, a native of Ohio, born in 1835, daughter of George and Elizabeth Cook. Mr. Chapman is a firm Republican. He is a member of the I. O.O. F., and has been for more than twenty years a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Contributed by: Michael L. Tedrow