San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 10/26/2009
HERBERT S. CHAPMAN, M.D.
A native son of California who is steadily forging ahead in his profession is Dr. Herbert S. Chapman, a member of the surgical staff of the Stockton Emergency Hospital, whose training and experience fitted him for general practice. He was born in Clayton, Contra Costa County, Cal., on April 7, 1892, a son of Charles E., also a native of Contra Costa County. Grandfather George Oliver Chapman was a native of Kentucky who came to California in 1843, while the great-grandmother, Mrs. Tarwater, residing in Contra Costa County at the age of one hundred years, came to California in 1839.
Herbert S. Chapman attended the Contra Costa public schools and graduated from the Concord high school. Entering the Stanford University he was graduated with the class of '14 with an A.B. degree; and three years later, in 1917, received his M.D. degree. While in the university he was instructor in medicine and physiology. After a post-graduate course in the Rockefeller Institute, and a special course in the Carrel-Dakin College on sterilization of wounds, he entered the Phipps Institute in Philadelphia. Later he received a commission as lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and saw active service overseas during the World War, spending two years with the mine-laying division in the North Sea; for fourteen months he was attached to the Base Hospital No. 2, a Stanford University unit, located at Strathpeffer, Scotland. Upon his return to the United States, he took a post-graduate course in surgery at the New York Post Graduate Hospital; then returning to California, he spent two months in the clinics at Stanford studying skin diseases, thus extending and widening his experience and knowledge. Returning to Stockton, he opened offices in the Yosemite Building where he is engaged in a steadily growing practice.
Dr. Chapman's marriage occurred on July 24, 1920, and united him with Miss Luella Sibbard, a native of Santa Rosa, Cal., and they are the parents of one son, Duff Gordon. He is a member of Karl Ross Post of the American Legion, a member of the Morning Star Lodge of Masons, the Knights of Pythias and the Kiwanis Club of Stockton, being a member of the board of trustees of the latter organization.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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