The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1908-07-29
MIR. 9. Y. Chapman.

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Mr Chapman was born February g..
1870. ~ Chadwcn Station. lee Count,
Virginia. within t.n miles or the extreme
western point OF the state Ilc first at-
tended the ante beilum subscription
schools ~ his neighborhood entering in
1892. at the age Of six wears. and spcnd-
ing from three GO FIVE months each year Boz
school till ~fi. when his school life was
Interrupted hy the civil war Just after
che closc of the war his father died. les,
ing him as She only Son and support of
his widowed mother and two orphan sis-
icrs. His father circumstance had be-
come so strsitcned by the ravages of both
armies n the civil war that he was unable
io enter school gain tin is5}-an inter
val of twelve years
Tho scarcity of teachers 40 the cnd oi
Che war called Tor his services as teacher
ot small country schools. and his first
term Was taught in Hancock County
Tenn. 'n iSco. From tais time on. hc
continued to teach ono or moro short
terms each year. m either Hancock nr
Claiborne Counties Tenn. tl 1871.
0hen Dee taught GO Balls Bridge lee
County, DIS first Virginia free schooi.
and at thc Same place thc following year
ln fhc iall of 1872 ai-o in 1893 and 1874.
he Taught bon Claiborne County. Tenn
nNr months at onc place and twenty
TWO months at another ln Che -prng oi
l''a he attended la1e"cl College. Tenn.
Tor "a short term DIS first n -chool since
ieNl. ln 1850 hc attended ioncsvilc
academy term of tive months after
which hc sicnt year at lafe"cN College.
th, ume teaching onc- iaii thc Time. ln
1896 and 1870 he Taught m Tennessee.
oni spent the spring of tac latter ycar a
Cumberland College Rose liih NA.-
where he also spent thc ncNt three Ycsrs
sraduatne with thc degree oi A b., boz
1881. and receiving tho degrco oi a. NJ.
n i'-3 on graduation. he WAS elected
Professor ot mathematics in his Alma
Mater. 'na held chat chair ior Che next
Tour years.
"n Che resignation oi pr = h camp.
nc.i' a, president "i the school bon l,>',
Af HapnAn was elected president
""''h l"e'''on hc resigned poo 1855 ana
t''"n'eN DDS olH place a' Professor oi
N'''''''.''- ms posi'i"n he retained
.'' '-' spring 'i i''V' ""en ne -eNtfc'i
"ia ''nnee D'h "'ih the school a'ter -er-
wee 'here "i lniI'ceh years anN went io
i'"-'.-e'' en-'s'ns in s'n''' work again
d" ''''o'"e County i'f peI'oo 'l TWO
years. in '''- n' was eie''ed if,siueni
'' "'-','e'''l' N''ese. use a. 'A" fe-
'''''' '''''' "' 'n' "''" 'i 'Na' ii'a'.'"''n Tot
e''1en le'fs' o'rns "n'eh 'mr he na'i
"noei ni7 t"'''h over '"e hundred young
men ana "olne" VINO 'ie' oi nave 'een'
','',leis in " ''e 'n' "''sno'i'ns ''oh
'''s among l"e'e '-e lies,lt county sue
i'Iii.''ii'.ei'' 'i SCHOOLS "i" ms "iie-
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