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| Obituary Notes for Arvis S CHAPMAN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bureau County Republican - April 17, 1879 (Illinois) Death of Arvis S. Chapman Arvis S. Chapman, was born in Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont, May 18th, 1791 and died at Princeton, april 9, 1879, being nearly 88 years of age. He left his father's farm at the age of twenty-one and went to Glenn Falls, New York where with an older brother, he carried on a carding and cloth dressing establishment for seven years, when they removed to Ohio. For many years he followed his trade as mill-wright, and with his brother, carrying on cloth dressing and grist and saw mills. He was married, at Lodi, Medina County, Ohio, May 21, 1828. Here he illed different public offices. He afterward removed to Cuyahoga County, continuing his business and later filling the office of Recorder, which took him to Cleveland. He removed to Princeton in 1845 and opened the hardward store as Chapman & Burr's afterward as A.S. & E.C. Chapman's. During twenty-five years of active business life he found time to take part in the educational and other public enterprises of Princeton, holding positions on the school board and town council, where he was valued as a concientious officer, alive to the interests of the public, his personal interests always occupying a second place. It will be remembered that he was anuncompromising abolitionist, when it cost something to be one. For several years, as is well known to our citizens. Mr. Chapman has been unable to continue his active life on account of physical infirmities, yet he was often seen on our streets, seeking out his former place o business and questioning any whom he chanced to meet. In regard to old friends, in regard to business and on other subjects, indicating that in his weakness the habits of a busy life were still in a measure controlling his last days. During the last winter he has been growing weaker, and more helpless. Three weeks ago today, he fell at his residence and sustained a fracture of the leg near the hip joint and during the night following suffered intense pain, but for the next 13 days, until his death, he seemed to be unconcious of his condition, passing away peacefully at the close of the day; at an hour when he was wont to sing a favorite hymn: The day has passed and gone, The evening shades appear; Oh, may we remember well, The night of death draws near. The funeral services were from the house, conducted by Dr. Edwards of the Congregational Church, of which Mr. Chapman had been a member for many years. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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