LH Chappell

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Lucius Henry Chappell (* 1853 in Macon , Georgia - † November 14, 1928 ) was an American politician .

Life

Lucius H. Chappell was a son of the politician Absalom Harris Chappell and his wife Loretta Rebecca (nee Lamar). The politician Mirabeau B. Lamar was his maternal uncle. His siblings included J. Harris Chappel, who was the first president of the Georgia Normal & Industrial College for Women in Milledgeville , Georgia, and the politician Thomas J. Chappell .

From 1870 to 1874 he studied at the University of Georgia and then worked in Columbus , Georgia. Chappell served as mayor of Columbus for a total of 12 years. Namely in the years from 1898 to 1907, and again in 1912 and 1913.

He was married to Cynthia Kent Hart (1872-1948) since 1891. The marriage resulted in seven children, four daughters and three sons. Following the example of their father, two of them also worked in the civil service in Columbus. His son Bently Hart Chappell (1892-1968) was the city attorney ( City attorney ). His daughter Loretto Chappell (1895–1987) became a librarian and headed the city's public library for several decades . As such, it played an important role in founding the Columbus College Archives , later the Columbus State University Archives . His son Lucius Henry Chappell junior (1905-1980), however, struck a career in the United States Navy .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d David M. Owings: Columbus (Arcadia Publishing, 2015)
  2. ^ Columbus, 1898. Home of Lucius Henry Chappell located at 1430 Third Ave. which he occupied after being elected mayor. Standing left to right: Jennie Hart, Mr. and Mrs. Chappell. Seated left to right: Loretta Lamar Chappell, Bentley Chappell. , Georgia Archives, University System of Georgia
  3. ↑ a b A genealogical history of the Chappell, Dickie, and other kindred families: 1635-1900, the Hix Chappell lineage to 1983 (1983)
  4. ↑ Andrew Woods Williamson, John Guy Bishop, Henry Martyn Williamson: The descendants of Robert and John Poage, pioneer settlers in Augusta County, Va (1954)
  5. ^ Sarah Harriet Butts: The mothers of some distinguished Georgians of the last half of the century (1902)
  6. ↑ a b The Kappa Alpha Journal , Volume 38, Issue 4 (1922)
  7. ^ List of Mayors of Columbus, Georgia , Columbus City website
  8. ↑ Donnis Mott Borchers: Thomas Lamar, the Immigrant: 300 Years of Descendants (1977)
  9. ↑ Georgia's Official Register (1929)
  10. ^ Lamar-Chappell Collection (MC 1) , Columbus State University Archives
personal data
SURNAME Chappell, LH
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chappell, Lucius Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Macon , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1928