Bio:S. E. Chapman, M.D.

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Samuel Chapman was born August 6th, 1847, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1862 he volunteered for the 124th Ohio volunteer infantry, to serve in the Civil War. After three years in the Army of the Cumberland, he was discharged and at once entered Baldwin University at Berea, Ohio. After some courses there, he entered the Cleveland Homeopathic College, from which he graduated in March 1874. He then began the practice of medicine in Perrysburg, Ohio. During March, 1874, he married Florence Boyer. He moved to California, 1877, locating in Foresthill, Placer County (NE of Sacramento), where he practiced medicine for twelve years, then to Watsonville, Santa Cruz county, and practiced for seven years. After this a year was spent in San Francisco, where he published "Dr. Jones' Picnic". In 1895 laryngeal and bronchial trouble necessitated another move to Napa, on account of its climate and other advantages.

He was a member of the State Medical Board of Examiners in Insanity, also of the City Board of Health. He was the House Physician of the Napa Sanatorium. He "contributed continually to the leading medical and literary publications", in particular publishing in the "Hahnemannian advocate" a monthly magazine of homoeopathic medicine.

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Information taken from "The History of Napa County", by W. F. Wallace, Oakland, CA, 1901 (copyright expired), and from the indexes to the "Hahnemannian advocate".