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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [377]

           WILLIAM T. CHAPPELL, proprietor of the CHAPPELL House at Sebe-
        waing, was born May 8, 1850, at Avon, Livingston Co., N.Y. His
        father, W. T. CHAPPELL, Sr., was born at N. Avon, and his mother,
        JULIA (RANSOM) CHAPPELL, was a native of Claridon, Geauga Co.,
        Ohio. They located after marriage at Avon, where MR. C. was a
        prominent agriculturist and was one of the earliest importers of
        Durham cattle in the Empire State.  The family are still residing
        there and includes six children, — W. T., J. FRANK, CHARLES H.,
        NELLIE V., CARRIE B. and EMMA.
           MR. CHAPPELL attended the common schools of his native place
        until he was 11 years of age, when he was sent to Temple Hill
        Academy at Geneseo, N.Y., where he was a student three years, after
        which he attended the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima a similar
        period.  In 1868 he went to the Eastman Business College at
        Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where he was graduated the following year. In
        1871 he came to Bay City; from there he went to Sebewaing, and
        platted 80 acres of land, and sold lots to the amount of $18,000.
           On coming hither to reside, MR. CHAPPELL at once took rank among
        the leading men in the town and county. He owns about 400 acres of
        land in Huron and Tuscola Counties, including 250 acres under
        cultivation. One farm of 160 acres is located near Port Austin. He
        has been a mail contractor since the time of his locating in Huron
        County, and at present controls 66 miles of mail route. He deals
        considerably in real estate. He is a connoisseur in horses, and in
        early manhood indulged a taste for fine grades.  He always kept a
        fine team while at school, and after being graduated he spent a
        year or two in buying and fitting horses for the New York market.
           MR. CHAPPELL is a staunch and active Republican.  He cast his
        first Presidential vote for GENERAL GRANT, and has been an adherent
        of the. "grand old party" ever since.  Most of his life has been
        spent under a Republican administration, and he expects to spend
        his remaining years in the prosperity and hope in which the country
        has rejoiced for so long a period.  In the fall of 1876 he was
        elected Sheriff of Huron County, and served two years. He declined
        a re-election.  He is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows.
           His marriage to LAURA E. TONG occurred Jan. 4, 1870, at Avon.
        They have two children: MARY, born at Avon, and ARTHUR S., born
        in Sebewaing.  PROCTOR T. TONG, the father of MRS. CHAPPELL, is a
        native of England and married MRS. ELIZABETH (NORTH) HOWE. She is
        a native of Connecticut, and died in Utica, Mich. They had one
        child, — LAURA.
           The portrait of MR. CHAPPELL, accompanying this sketch, gives
        the characteristic features of an influential and representative
        citizen of the Huron peninsula.

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