11 Facts About Alfred Chapman

Alfred Beck Chapman was a Los Angeles real estate attorney and investor.

Alfred Chapman was one of the founders of the city of Orange, California.

Alfred Chapman's grandfather, Robert Hett Chapman, was born in Orange, New Jersey, studied theology and was a pastor from 1796 to 1812, at which time he became president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill until 1816.

Alfred Chapman was a Cadet at the Military Academy at West Point, from September 1,1850, to July 1,1854, when he was graduated 29th in his class.

Alfred Chapman was promoted to Brevet Second Lieutenant Of Artillery, July 1,1854.

In 1863 Chapman became city attorney of Los Angeles, replacing Myer J Newmark, who resigned, and in 1868 he was elected district attorney of Los Angeles County.

Alfred Chapman went into partnership with a boyhood friend, Andrew Glassell, when the latter arrived in Los Angeles in 1866.

Alfred Chapman joined with one of his partners, Andrew Glassell, to develop a new community, Richland.

Alfred Chapman had six children by his first marriage to Mary Scott.

Alfred Chapman married again after her death in 1883, and had one child by his second marriage to Mary L Stephens, daughter of a pioneer California attorney and judge.

Alfred Chapman is often misidentified as the namesake for Chapman University in Orange businessman and citrus magnate Charles C Chapman actually has that distinction.