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Person
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Chapman, A. P. (Adelbert Putnam), 1844-1929
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Description area
Dates of existence
1844-1929
History
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.