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GEORGE H. CHAPPELL
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GEORGE H. CHAPPELL, of Westwood, was born in Westerly, R. I.,
July 5, 1844. He is the son of Ahiram J. Chappell and Lucinda Hoxie and
a grandson of Elisha and Amy (Steadman) Chappell and Nathan B. Hoxie.
His maternal grandmother was a Pollock. On his father's side the family
came to this country from England and in this line is included Commodore
Perry. His mother's family came from Scotland. Elisha Chappell, his
paternal grandfather, was a Captain of artillery in the War of 1812.
Mr. Chappell was educated at Hillsdale College in Michigan. He learned the trade of civil engineering in early life, and during the Civil War served three years with honor and distinction, being a private in Company E, Twelfth Regiment Maine Volunteers, and receiving a commission as First Lieutenant. Afterward he turned his attention largely to inventions. He was the inventor of an engine operated by carbonic acid gas and the organizer of the New Power Company of Illinois, of which he was President. For ten years he was a broker in Wall Street, New York. Mr. Chappell's career has been an eminently successful one, and from the first he has displayed great executive ability as well as rare inventive genius. He is a member of the Congregational Church, an active and influential citizen, and honored and respected by all who know him. He married, first, Lettuce Willis, who died in 1888, leaving one son, George H. Chappell, Jr. For his second wife he married Mary Hamm.
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