Timothy Pitkin Chapman, II

Timothy Pitkin Chapman, II

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Second son of Timothy Pitkin and Rachel Todd (Hartwell) Chapman, and brother of Dr. Sherman Hartwell Chapman (Yale College 1866) and John Henry Chapman (Ph.B. Yale 1876). His mother was a descendant of Roger Sherman.

Timothy Pitkin Chapman was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, June 24, 1848, and was prepared for college at Anthon's Grammar School in New York City. At the age of sixteen he entered the Freshman Class in Yale College. He was a member of the Junior Promenade Committee, ranked in scholarship among the High Orations, and was one of the speakers at Junior Exhibition and at Commencement.

Immediately after graduation he entered Columbia College Law School, where he received the degree of LL.B. in 1870, and became a member of the New York Bar. While attending the Law School he also studied in the office of Seward, Griswold, Blatchford & DaCosta, a distinguished law firm in the city of New York. Before entering upon the active practice of his profession he went to Europe, where he spent fifteen months in travel and study, and on his return to this country, in the Autumn of 1871, he again connected himself with the law office above named and in the Spring of 1874 he became junior member of the firm.

On November 25, 1873, he was married to Leila Tisdale of Brooklyn, and lived in that city until his death, which occurred September 13, 1875. His wife survived him with one child, Leila Hartwell Chapman, born March 4, 1875.

SOURCE: History of the Class of 1868: Yale College, 1864-1914

• Residence: 1850 - New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
• Residence: 1875 - Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States
• Residence: 1875 - Kings County, New York
• Residence: 1893 - Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States
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