If anyone interested....got this from Jefferson County-Town of
Ellisburgh.
LEVI CHAPMAN was born in the town of Lyme, N.H., where he reared a large
family of children. John, son of Levi, was born in 1814, and came with
his parents to St. Lawrence County in 1817. He learned the blacksmiths'
trade, and located at Robert's Corners, in the town of Henderson, about
1835. He married Miranda N., daughter of Tanner and Almira (Bidwell)
Congdon, in 1836, and they had three sons and two daughters, viz: Julian
B., who died young; Eugene A., born in 1839; Engelia A., born in 1843,
who married W. W. Gleason, by whom she has two children--Mae (Mrs.
George Smith) and Ralph; Florence L., born in 1846, who died in 1865;
and Washington I., born in 1849, who married Emma, daughter of Daniel
and Harriet (Whitney) Snow, by whom he has a daughter, Grace, and
resides in Henderson Harbor. Eugene A. Chapman was educated in Union
Academy, the medical department of the University of Michigan, and
graduated from the medical department of University of Buffalo in the
class of 1862. He commenced practice in Clayton, and in June 1862
enlisted in Co. G., 10th N. Y. H. A. He served one year as adjutant,
and in June, 1863 was promoted to captain. In November, 1864, he became
assistant surgeon U.S.A., and was assigned to Point of Rocks (Va.)
Hospital, where he remained during the winter of 1864-65. During the
summer of 1865 he was quarantine officer and post surgeon at Brazos
Santiago, Texas, and in November of that year his term of service
expired. Returning to Henderson he practiced medicine until 1873, when,
his health failing, he accepted a postion in the railroad office of
Salamanca, NY, where he remained one year, locating in Ellisburgh in
1875. He married Philinda M., daughter of Philo and Caroline (Davis)
Hungerford, in 1865, and they had one son and two daughters, viz: Clara
M., a graduate of Cook Academy, class of 1885; Florence L., a graduate
of Union Academy, class of 1887; and Walter E., a student in Union
academy. Dr. Chapman's wife died in 1874, and for his second wife he
married Agenes G., daughter of Hiram W. and Caroline (Burlingame)
McClure, in 1877, by whom he had two sons and one daughter, viz.: Ross
McC., born in 1881; John H., born in 1885; and Margery C, born in 1888.
Dr. Chapman was postmaster at Henderson in 1872 and '73, was elected
coroner in 1870, and again in 1886, and is president of the board of
trustees of Union Academy, at Belleville.
Hope this will help someone.......Edie