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cient Accepted Scottish Rite. His religious affiliation is with the Second Presbyterian Church of Richmond.

Fred Leslie Chapman. In the paternal line, Mr. Chapman traces to the colonial Chapman family of Massachusetts, and through his grandmother, Rachel (Wins- low) Chapman, to Governor Winslow, the Puritan, a passenger on the "Mayflower" and first governor of the colony. The fam- ily intermarriages connect with many of the early Puritan families, and branches are found in every state in the Union. The branch from which Mr. Chapman springs settled in the state of Maine, his father later settling in New Hampshire.

Fred Leslie Chapman is a grandson of Hartley and Rachel (Winslow) Chapman, and a son of Hartley Sewall Chapman, who was born in Maine in 1828, died in 1909, aged eighty-one years. Hartley S. Chap- man, a cotton manufacturer of Somers- worth, New Hampshire, was also promi- nent in political life, held many local offices, and was a member of the New Hampshire legislature. His brother, Clarence Chap- man, was a leader of the Republican party in his district, both he and his brother Hart- ley wielding a strong influence in the state councils of their party. Hartley S. Chap- man married Hannah Maxwell, who died when her son Fred Leslie was an infant, leaving three children, two daughters, El- veretto and Emma, both now deceased, dying in youthful womanhood.

Fred Leslie Chapman, only son of Hart- ley S. and Hannah (Maxwell) Chapman, was born in Somersworth, New Hampshire, December 25, 1854. He obtained a good education in the Somersworth schools, and was early admitted to a business association with his father, a manufacturer of cotton goods. He was employed in the cotton mills of Somersworth until he was thirty-four years of age, becoming thoroughly familiar with every detail of cotton manufacture and mill management. In 1889 he came to Dan- ville, entering the employ of the Riverside Mills, engaged in cotton manufacture. He passed through several grades of promotion, and in 1905 became superintendent of the mills. He is thorough master of his posi- tion, and has brought the plant to a high state of efficiency. He is a Republican on national issues, but in local and state politics

acts with the Democratic party. In 1905 he was elected a member of the city council, serving one term. He is a member of the Baptist church, the Masonic order, the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and the newly formed Tuscarora Club.

Mr. Chapman married, in Danville, De- cember 7, 1910, Lulu Hubbard, born in Campbell county, Virginia, daughter of Thomas Hubbard, a farmer and veteran, Confederate soldier, and Mary Catherine (Payne) Hubbard, his wife, both born in Campbell county. Child, Mary Leslie, born February 1(3, 1913.

Peter Stumpf. From Offenbach came Peter Stumpf, born in that city of Germany, May ID, 1841, died in Richmond, Virginia, in 1903. He immigrated to the United States when eighteen years of age, and after making his home in New York City, there became connected with a brewing concern. After moving to Richmond, Virginia, he was for many years proprietor and operator of the Home Brewery, withdrawing from this line to open a cold storage plant, of which he was owner at the time of his death. He was a Democrat in politics, affiliated with the Improved Order of Heptasophs, and held membership in the Roman Catholic church, to which his children belong, al- though his widow is a communicant of St. John's Lutheran Church.

Peter Stumpf married, in Richmond, Vir- ginia, December 12, 1896, Hermine, born in Richmond, \'irginia, March 4, 1866, daugh- ter of Otto and Marie (Meeke) Morgen- stern. Otto Morgenstern was born in the Duchy of Brunswick, Germany, his father, Henry, having been at one time secretary to the ruler of the Duchy, and a prominent personage in that locality. Henry Morgen- stern had seven children, three of whom are now living in Germany. Otto Morgenstern was born December 22, 1828, died July 14, 1899 ; when a young man he came to Vir- ginia, settling in Richmond, where he was for forty-five years proprietor of a cafe at Broad and Fourth streets, and where his death occurred. His wife, Marie (Meeke) Morgenstern, was a native of Hanover, Ger- manv, and of their six children three sur- vive : Rosalie, married a Mr. Krause ; Emily, married a Mr. Seelinger; Hermine, of previ- ous mention, married Peter Stumpf. Mrs. Stumpf resides at No. 2336 West Grace