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Chapman became associated with Patter-
son, Teele & Dennis as a certified public
accountant, and later was with Haskins
& Sells, of New York City, in a similar
capacity. Later he left the accounting
profession to become auditor of the Westcott
Express Company. After the Westcott
Express Company was absorbed by
the American Express Company, he re-
signed his position to become auditor for
the David Williams Company, publishers
of "Iron Age." In 1906 he resigned to
become a partner in the firm of Chisholm
& Pouch, brokers. The following year
Mr. Pouch withdrew to start his own firm,
and at that time the firm name was
changed to Chisholm & Chapman, which
has been its style since that time. The
firm are members of the New York Stock
Exchange.
Mr. Chapman is very active in several
other directions as well ; he makes his
home in Greenwich, Connecticut, and
takes an active interest in the public mat-
ters of that town, being a member of its
Board of Estimate and Taxation. He is
a member of the directorate of the Put-
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nam Trust Company ; also a director of
the Continental Bank of New York City
a director and treasurer of the Exchange
Court Corporation ; and a trustee and
treasurer of the D. K. E. Society of Williams
College. His clubs include in New
York City, the University, Racquet and
Tennis, Society of Mayflower Descend-
ants, Down Town Association, Williams,
D. K. E., Society of Colonial Wars, Sons
of the Revolution, and the Long Island
Historical Society; and in Greenwich the
Greenwich Country Club, Field Club, and
Indian Harbor Yacht Club.
Mr. Chapman married, in Brooklyn,
May 25, 1897, Charlotte Frost Knowlton,
daughter of Daniel W. Knowlton. She
was born in West Upton, Massachusetts,
July II, 1874, and died in Greenwich,
;
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Connecticut, November 28, 1916, leaving
the following children : i. Edwin Nesbit,
Jr., born November 24, 1901. 2. Daniel
Knowlton, born July 31, 1904. 3. Nancy
Davol, born August 18, 1912.
CHAPMAN, John Davol,
Banker, Served in Spanish-American War.
John Davol Chapman, son of Dr. Edwin
Nesbit (i) and Maria Barton (Davol)
Chapman (q. v.), was born in Brooklyn,
New York, March 6, 1874. He attended
private schools, the Hill School, Pottstown,
Pennsylvania, and the Brown &
Nichols School, Cambridge, Massachu-
setts. In 1892 he entered Williams College,
and while there became a member
of the D. K. E. fraternity. He left college
in 1895 to enter business, embarking
in various enterprises until 1901, in which
year he became a member of the Consolidated
Stock Exchange of New York
City, and four years later purchased a
seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
Mr. Chapman always acted independently
in his stock transactions, and has been
very successful as a banker and business
man. When the firm of which his brother
was a partner was organized in 1907, Mr.
chapman became a special partner. In
1914 he retired from active business to
the beautiful residence which he had built
in 1909 in Greenwich, Connecticut, where
he has since resided. His home is on
Round Island.
Mr. Chapman was one of the organizers
and is now vice-president of the Putnam
Trust Company, of Greenwich. The first
business relations the residents of the
town had with the outside world no doubt
were consummated over the land now
the property of Mr. Chapman. That land
was the point from which the inhabitants
shipped their produce, largely potatoes,
to New York City. Before the famous