San Joaquin County Biographies


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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 � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p  1420        
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.