Evening star., 1938-02-20
USELESS DISTRICT DELEGATE
OneTme Territorial Government of Washington Failed
plish Its Purpose but City Still Hopes to Take
Proper Place in Nation.

HE hrst Council, as appointed BY
the President, included William
stickney, who became the president:
A. K. Browne, Samuel Cross. Fred
erick Douglass, Daniel L. Eaton. John
A. Gray, George r. Gulick. Adolphus
Hall, Charles F. Peck, Daniel Smith
and John w. Thompson. Francis H.
Smith became chief clerk and lewis
H. Douglass succeeded his father,
Frederick Douglass, who resigned.
There was no change In the second
Council. In the third Council John
H. Brooks took the place Of Lewis
H. Douglass. Eaton, 0ray and Peck
were omitted, and John w. Baker, s.
M. Golden, Joshua Riley and Samuel
Gedney substituted.
During this same period the fol-
lowing served in one or more Of the
four Houses Of Delegates which met
from 1871 to 1874: Charles L. Hulse,
Solomon q. Brown, Joseph T. H. Hall;
William D. Cassin, John e. Cox. John
F. Murray, James A. Handy. George
Burgess, Adolphus s. Solomons, John
T. Ennis, Thomas E. Lloyd. William
Dickson. John c. Harkness, Peter
Campbell, william w. Moore. John
w Mcknight, Frederick A. Boswell,
william R. Hunt, John Hogan, Joseph
G. Carroll, Lemuel Bursley, Madison
Davis, Joseph Brooks, Clement A.
Peck, o. s. B. Wall, George B. Wilson,
William r. Collins, E. p. Berry, John
H. Underwood. George w. Dyer, Sam
uel r. Bond. Thomas w. Chase, El-
phonzo Youngs. Henry Piper, S. s.
Smoot, Robert I. Fleming, John w.
LIE Barnes. Matthew Trfmble, Charles
j. Brewer, James G. Long, Arthus
Shepherd. Leonard Gordon, Warren
Choate, william H. Clagett, John A.
Perkins, Samuel P. Robertson, j. w.
Taliferro, M. E. Urell. Sidney w. Her
bert, w. E. Vermillion and Joseph L.
Venable.
As secretary of the District, the
President appointed Gen. Norton p.
Chapman, and the following month,
when he was elected 4 Delegate to
Congress, Richard L. Stanton was ap-
pointed in his place as secretary, and
he was followed by Richard Harring-
ton. DR.. William Tindall served as
secretary to the Governor; William
Forsyth, surveyor; william A. Cook,
attorney, and after w. H. Slater had
served a while as collector this Office
went to Lewis Clephane.
1T WILL be observed that at this
time, or from April q. 1871, to
March 4. 1875, Gen. Chapman was the
Districts Delegate in Congress, and it
might be enlightening to those who
are inclined to help the voteless people
Of the District of Columbia to look
up Gen. Chipman's record In Congress
and see just what he did, or rather
what he was not able to do for the
people Of the District of Columbia. But
first, perhaps, it would be best to give
. short biographical sketch about our
first and only spokesman or Delegate
in Congress.
Gen. Chapman was born in Milford
Center. Ohio, March 2, 1886, where
he attended the public schools. In
1845, he moved to Iowa and entered
Washington College, and afterward
attended the law school in Cincinnati,
after which he returned to Washing
ton, Iowa. and commenced the prac-
tice Of law. When the Civil War came
on, he entered the Union Army, and
was commissioned = major Of the I'd
Iowa Infantry. September 23, 1861.
April IL, 1862. he was made q colonel.
and was brevetted q brigadier general
OF volunteers March 13. 1865, for meri-
torious service In the Bureau of Mill
tary Justice. He was mustered out of
the service November 80. 1865. Gen.
Chapman, like Gen. Garfield, was q
charter member of Pentalpha Lodge,
No. %, F. A. A. NJ, of WASHINGTON,
D. c.. and was identified In other
Masonic bodies.
He was q Republican in politics.
and was elected as q Delegate to the
Forty-second and Forty-third Con.
crosses from the District of Columbia
on this ticket. When the form of gov
ernment under which he served was
abolished, he moved to California and
engaged in the lumber business. Here