Background
Chapman, elder son of Abisha and Mary (Goss) Chapman, was born in Canfield, Ohio, November 17, 1806.
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Frederick Chapman
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He graduated from Yale College in 1828.
Career
He taught the academy in Sharon, Connecticut, for the year after graduation, and spent the three succeeding years in the Divinity School of Yale College. He then became the principal of the high school in Ellington, Connecticut, and so continued until 1863, supplying in the mean time the church in West Stafford, Connecticut, for four and a half years (1856-1861), and afterwards the church in Bolton, Connecticut, to which town he next removed. Leaving Bolton in 1864, he supplied the pulpit of the Union Church in East Hampton, Connecticut, for two years, and for five years had charge of the church in Prospect, Connecticut
In 1871 he removed to Rocky Hill, Connecticut, and devoted himself thenceforth to genealogical researches.
He had already published, in 1854, a genealogy of the Chapman Family, and in 1864 one of the Pratt Family. Four more volumes compiled by him were printed,—the Trowbridge and Buckingham genealogies in 1872, the Coit genealogy in 1873, and the Bulkeley genealogy in 1875.
In August 1873, a stroke of paralysis impaired his faculties, but he continued to work until a second stroke, in October 1875, which deprived him of speech, and left him to pass the remaining months in feebleness of body and mind, until his death, at his residence in Rocky Hill, July 20, 1876, in his 70th year. This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.
