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Chapman, Christopher E

lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 24, 1860, in New Shoreham, R. I. He attended Brown university, and in 1884 graduated in law from the Boston university. In 1887-89 he was a member of the house of representatives of the Rhode Island legislature; and in the senate from 1890 to 1897 consecutively. He procured appropriations aggregating one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars from the state of Rhode Island and the United States government for harbor refuge at New Shoreham Great Pond harbor, in his native town.