The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-20
Written in Sorrow.


| tleman, l.. J. Chapman, f1ickered and
went out forever. His devoted wife,
and two sons who fairly idolized
| their venerable sire, were constantly
at his bedside from the time the fatal
| illness seized upon him a few days
ago. Though advanced in years, Mr.
Chapman was robust and active up
to the last few weeks. A cod which
affected him after a trip to the lake
during one of the stormy days of the
| winter and which gave him some
| trouble at the time, never left him,
and he had been somewhat ailing for
| the past six weeks. Early last week
he was down town for the last time
and his CHEEKY greeting will be long
remembered by the dozens of friends
he chatted with and their recollec-
ton will be a pleasure to them.
Heart failure, superinduced by il
grippe, was the immediate cause of
death, and his last hours were spent
in agonizing pain and he was almost
fully conscious up to the hour of dis
solution. In vain the loving minis
trations of his family and the stead
fast attention of devoted friends,
highest medical aid was invoked, but
only succeeded in prolonging his life
q few hours; hours fraught with an
quish to the patient sufferer and the
misery of impotence to his sorrow
ing relatives.
| A truer gentleman was never born
than L. j. Chapman, kindly, consider
ate. the soul of honor, he was every
man S friend and every child's friend
| taking special delight in children
| Though he had retired from the ac-
tlvities OF life and was enjoying a
We'll earned leizure after passing his
three score and ten years in strenu-
Gus occupations, he never impressed
one as superannuated, his youth was
perpetual and cheerfulness was the
browning glory of his old age. Moist
eyes in hundreds Of his friends in
Flathead county. will follow this
pathetic chapter Of his life's close.
AFTER years spent on the frontier
and in California, of which he was OF
the original argonauts, Mr. Chapman
last summer, with his wife from
whom he had never been separated
made a journey to his birthplace in
Maine, and the environment there
was not pleasing to the generous
breadth of his soul, and he was soon
pleased to leave behind MIN the mar.
row conventionalities of way down
east and find himself once more in
| western freedom. That visit, how
ever was the elimination OF ong
fostered desire and his family were
f happy in having carried out his
t dearest wish.
: His widow and his two sons, ArnC
S j. Chapman and l.. J. B. Chapman
and grandchildren, Bernice julia
and Elbridge Ephraim Chapman
are the only immediate relatives il
the west. there are very many rela
= tives and family connections in AM
q about Waldoboro, Maine, however.
q The funeral will take place from
G the family residence at 4O4 Thir(
+ avenue east Sunday afternoon at
q O'Clock, and an address will be mad,
; by Rev. II. E. Cloves. Interment will
be made at the Demersville GENE
terry.
The pail bearers will be Messrs
Hunt, Tinkle, Strickland Ford, Bul
5 nett and Moore
e Leonard Jarvis Chapman was Dor
d at the DamariscOtta homestead, j.
Maine, on September Z, 1929. Earl
/. in life he was apprenticed to shoe
Ie making with an uncle at Noblebor(
k and becoming a master WOrl
man was before his majority forema
n. of the largest shop in the county. Hi
ri motto was even then the best {
70 nothing" and in 1S49 he went to tn
II best factory in Quincy, GLASS, place
10 himself under instructors to lear
more about his trade. In Februal
70 of the following year he was marie
to the lady who has shared so man
10 years Of his romantic frontier lif
a Miss Julia A. Chapman, a native
is Waldoboro, Name.
He was natural mechanic, al
or desiring a more extended field aba
IT. doned his first trade and entered
h. shipyard, where he became a pro
cient workman. In 1855 he sail,
from New York to California by tt
or Panama route. From San Francis
to the gold fields, spending his tin
until 1867 in building mills and pu
ay lie works in surrounding counties.
1870 he was appointed fOrem
builder at the United States ma
yard at Mare Island. and held II
responsible position Tor nve yea
Following this occurred series
years in the mining region of
Nada, and an acquaintance with the
world renowned nrOlnrnrS of min o.