Dr. Sherman Hartwell Chapman, M.D.

Dr. Sherman Hartwell Chapman

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Dr. Chapman was named from his grandfather, Sherman Hartwell, who having established a trading post in the town of Warren, came to Bridgeport and earned a fortune. Dr. Chapman's father was employed as a clerk in the dry-goods store of L. B. Chittenden of New Haven and afterwards became a member of the firm, which was Chittenden & Chapman. The business was later removed to New York City and Mr. Chapman retired. Mr. Chittenden later acquired some public notoriety as Congressman from New York.

Messrs. Chittenden and Chapman both married sisters, daughters of Sherman Hartwell. Dr. Chapman was born in New Haven, but entered college from Bridgeport, where his family then resided. He graduated from Yale in 1866. In the same class were Doctors L.D. Bulkley, G. . Davis, and S.B. St. John, all members of this Society, Professor Farnam and Judge J.M. Hall, President of the Consolidated Railroad. He immediately went abroad, but took his medical degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1869. Few men have had better facilities for study, both at home and abroad, than Dr. Chapman. He selected throat and ear diseases for a specialty and was appointed a Lecturer in that course at the Yale Medical School.

Proceedings by Connecticut State Medical Society, 1903
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SHERMAN HARTWELL CHAPMAN, M.D.— 1869

Dr. Sherman Hartwell Chapman was born on February 22, 1846, in New Haven, Connecticut, and was the son of Timothy Pitkin and Maria (Hartwell) Chapman. On both sides he is descended from old colonial ancestry, his great uncle, Major General Chapman, having served in the Revolutionary war.

Dr. Chapman attended Professor Arnold's grammar school in New York City, where he was prepared for Columbia University, but owing to a change of plan he entered Yale instead, where he graduated in the Class of 1866, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, receiving in 1869 that of Master of Arts. In the latter year he also graduated as Doctor of Medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. He then spent some time studying in Berlin, Vienna and Heidelberg, and during the Franco-German war served as assistant in field hospitals. He devoted himself chiefly to the study of the throat and lungs under Professor Eckraetter, and spent one year in the Soho Square Hospital, London, studying gynecology. From 1873 till his death, he was engaged in the practice of his profession in New Haven, devoting himself mainly to diseases of the throat and lungs. From 1874 to 1878 he was pathologist to the New Haven Hospital, and for a time held the positions of clinical instructor and lecturer on the throat and ear in the medical school of Yale University. He was physician and pathologist to the New Haven Dispensary.

Most of the contributions made by Dr. Chapman to the literature of his profession have appeared in the publications of the Laryngological Society. Dr. Chapman was vice president of the American Laryngological Society, and a member of the Climatological, Laryngological and Otologica societies. He also belonged to the Connecticut State Medical Society, the New Haven Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He was for one term a member of the New Haven board of aldermen. His death occurred in New Haven, Connecticut on April 15, 1903, at the age of fifty-seven years.

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