Rev. Adelbert Putnam Chapman was born on October 17, 1844, in Ellington, Tolland County, Connecticut.

He was a Protestant Episcopal clergyman who graduated with a B.A. degree from Yale University in 1865. From 1866 to 1868 he taught at Quincy, Illinois and after two years he returned east to study theology at the Boston Theological Seminary. He joined the New York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1870. He served at St. Michael's Parish in Litchfield, Connecticut and in 1872, he was ordained Deacon at Bridgeport, Connecticut and Elder in Brooklyn, New York.

In 1874, he married Helen Harvey (1850-1898). He died on May 23, 1929, in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Edward John Chapman was born on February 22, 1821, in Kent, England.

He was a university professor, mineralogist, and author. He attended the Lycée Henri-Quatre and the Sorbonne in Paris. In the late 1830s, he followed friends to Algeria, where he enlisted in the French army of occupation. After being wounded in battle, he was brought back to England. Chapman decided to study civil engineering. He also became interested in identifying mineral specimens and published two small treatises in London, “Practical Mineralogy” (1843) and “A Brief Description of the Characters of Minerals ” (1844). In 1849, he obtained a professorship of mineralogy at University College, London. In 1853, University College in Toronto appointed Chapman to its newly created chair of mineralogy and geology, a position he would hold until 1889 when he joined the School of Practical Science at the University of Toronto. He played an important public role as a supporter of the Geological Survey of Canada, especially as an interpreter and popularizer of its annual scientific reports. He broadened his own research interests in geology and mineralogy to include Canadian formations. Much of his published work, both theoretical and practical, appeared in the Canadian Institute’s Canadian Journal, on whose editorial board he served for many years. In 1862, Chapman received a Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen, in the kingdom of Hanover (Germany) and an honorary L.L.D. from Queen’s College, Kingston in 1867. He was a charter member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1882. He was also an expert fencer, accomplished amateur actor, and published poet.

In 1844, he married Anne Louisa Cogan (1819–1894). In 1896, he remarried Frances "Fanny" Sutherland (1833–1924). He died on January 28, 1904, in Hampton Wick, Middlesex, England.

Henry Samuel Chapman was born on July 21, 1803, in Kennington, London, England. He was an Australian and New Zealand judge, colonial secretary, attorney-general, journalist, and politician. After attending schools in Bromley and London, he emigrated to Quebec, Canada, in 1823. Following ten years of reasonable success in business, he turned to journalism. In 1833, he co-founded the radical Montreal Daily Advertiser, the first daily paper published in Canada. Chapman returned to England in 1835 as a salaried intermediary between the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada and its friends in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. He studied law in the late 1830s and was admitted to the bar of the Middle Temple in 1840. The same year he began publishing the New Zealand Journal. In 1843, he sailed to New Zealand where he held the position of judge of the supreme court for the southern district (1843-1852). In 1857, he was named Attorney-General and retained this office until 1859. In 1860, Chapman was a lecturer in law at the University of Melbourne. In 1864, he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, at Dunedin. He retired in 1875 taking up commerce and sheep farming in Central Otago. In 1840, he married Catherine (Kate) Delancey Brewer (1810–1866). In 1866, she and two of his six sons and his only daughter drowned when the passenger ship SS London was wrecked in the Bay of Biscay. In 1868, he remarried Selina Frances Chapman (1823-1902). He died on December 27, 1881, in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Henry Chapman was born in 1820 in England.

He was a wealthy tea and wine importer. In 1864, the Government of the Province of Canada granted six islands in the Lake Memphremagog near the Bay of Magog, Quebec to his wife Isabella. The same year he built the Belmere estate, located south of Georgeville, Quebec. Upon her death in 1875, Isabella bequeathed to her husband all her possessions. Chapman moved to Nice, France and after his death, the islands were sold.

In 1847, he married Isabella Shaw (abt 1820-1875). He died on February 24, 1896, in Wooburn, Buckinghamshire, England.

Robert Gillies Chapman was born on September 13, 1842, at sea, crossing the Atlantic Ocean. In 1871, he married Elizabeth Goodfellow (1848–1919). He died on July 26, 1916, in Bruce County, Ontario.