Senator Horace Ray Chapman View All Years

Horace Ray Chapman

Cedar County

HORACE RAY CHAPMAN was born at Monticello, Iowa, January 30, 1873, and died at Bennett, February 1, 1926. The body was placed in a mausoleum at Maquoketa. He was graduated from Monticello High School, attended Cornell College, Mount Vernon, for three years, and in 1901 was graduated from the Medical Department of the State University of Iowa. The same year he began the practice of medicine at Bennett. For eight years he was a member of the school board and was twice mayor of the town. He removed to Durant and engaged in the drug business in connection with the practice of medicine. He was mayor of Durant in 1908, but the same year he was elected senator and served in the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth assemblies. In 1908 he resumed his residence at Bennett.

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