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Boss Tweed became a resident of Green-
wich, some of his lieutenants camped over
night on the land on which Mr. Chapman's
house now stands. They made
such glowing reports of the attractiveness
of the spot that Boss Tweed spent his
next summer on Round Island which
marked the beginning of his residence in
Greenwich.
Mr. Chapman was a member of Troop
A, United States Volunteers, in the Spanish-American
War, and served in Porto
Rico. During the World War he was
manager of the Bureau of Passports, Department
of Personnel of the American
Red Cross of New York City. He is a
member of the following New York
clubs : The Stock Exchange Luncheon
Club, the Williams Club of New York
City, the D. K. E. Club of New York,
and the Society of Mayflower Descendants.
His clubs in Greenwich are : The
Indian Harbor Yacht Club, the Field Club,
the Greenwich Country Club, the Woodway
Country Club, and the Blind Brook
Club. Mr. Chapman's principal recrea-
tion is golf.
Mr. Chapman married, in 1906, Mary
Adelaide Foltz, daughter of William
Stewart and May (Scofield) Foltz. John
Scofield, father of May (Scofield') Foltz,
came from England to America in 1849,
attracted by the discovery of gold in Cal-
ifornia, and later became a clergyman of
the Methodist Episcopal church in Cali-
fornia. He was a presiding elder in later
years, and resided in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Mr. and Mrs. Chapman are the parents of
two sons : John Stewart, born October 19,
1907; and Richard Davol, born March 23,
1911.
CARMICHAEL, George Edgar,
Educator.
The subject of this sketch is a native
of New England, and a graduate of a
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New England college. For twenty-five
years he has been a worker in the field of
education. Brunswick School, in Green-
wich, established by him in 1902, ranks
high among the nation's good schools.
As founder of the school and headmaster
from its beginning, Mr. Carmichael has
been its guiding spirit through the two
decades of its existence.
As a citizen of Greenwich our subject
has had an interested part in civic affairs.
He was a member of the first town school
committee of Greenwich, and in this ca-
pacity served the public school system of
the town for two years. For five years
he was secretary and for two years president
of the Boys' Club of Greenwich. At
the present time he is a member of the
executive committee of the Boys' Club, a
director of the Greenwich Young Men's
Christian Association, president of the
Greenwich Library, and president of the
Greenwich Rotary Club.
Mr. Carmichael, in the line of his family
name, is a descendant of a Scottish family
of Highland origin, though for some
generations resident near Edinboro. His
ancestry includes also English, French
and Dutch strains. His paternal greatgrandfather,
Frank Carmichael, came
from Scotland in the latter part of the
eighteenth century and settled in Nova
Scotia. Among Frank's six sons was
Thompson Carmichael, born in Pictou,
Nova Scotia, in 1802. Thompson Car-
michael, after being educated in Halifax,
went to St. Margaret's Bay to engage in
business. Finding a business life not to
his taste, he took up the profession of
teaching, and continued in it to the end
of his life. When he first went to St.
Margaret's Bay, he met and married Barbara
Hubley, daughter of a Dutchman
who had settled there about the time of
the American Revolution. He became the
father of a large family of sons and