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1862 - Born on March 2nd in New York, New York. American poet, dramatist, and critic who attacked the get-rich-quick morality of the post-Civil War “Gilded Age” in political action and in his writings.
1876 - At age 14 Chapman went to St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, but he broke down physically and mentally and returned home to complete his preparatory education with tutors.
1885 - After graduating from Harvard, he traveled in Europe and then returned to Harvard Law School.
1887 - He assaulted a man for his supposed insulting attentions to the woman who later became Chapman's wife. In remorse Chapman plunged his left hand into a fire and injured it so severely that it had to be amputated.
1888 - Admitted to the New York bar.
1897 - Chapman practiced for 10 years, meanwhile becoming a leading reformer as president of the Good Government Club and editor and publisher of the periodical The Political Nursery, taking a leading part in the movement in New York City against the machine politics of Tammany Hall.
- Out of these activities came two books—Causes and Consequences and Practical Agitation. Both stressed his belief that individuals should take a moral stand on issues troubling the nation.
1901 - Chapman had a nervous breakdown and for several years wrote little other than plays for children.
1910 - A play for adults, The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold (published), marked his return to vigorous intellectual activity.
1912 - On the first anniversary of the lynching of a black man in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, Chapman hired a hall there and held a memorial service with only two others present.
1913-1932 - Chapman wrote some 25 books, including a biography of William Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist leader; collected Songs and Poems; and volumes of criticism such as Emerson, and Other Essays, Greek Genius, and Other Essays, and A Glance Toward Shakespeare). His fear that the quality of education in the United States was being destroyed by its excessive scale and its servitude to the needs of business was expressed in his New Horizons in American Life.
1933 - He died on November 4th in Poughkeepsie, New York.
1876 - At age 14 Chapman went to St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, but he broke down physically and mentally and returned home to complete his preparatory education with tutors.
1885 - After graduating from Harvard, he traveled in Europe and then returned to Harvard Law School.
1887 - He assaulted a man for his supposed insulting attentions to the woman who later became Chapman's wife. In remorse Chapman plunged his left hand into a fire and injured it so severely that it had to be amputated.
1888 - Admitted to the New York bar.
1897 - Chapman practiced for 10 years, meanwhile becoming a leading reformer as president of the Good Government Club and editor and publisher of the periodical The Political Nursery, taking a leading part in the movement in New York City against the machine politics of Tammany Hall.
- Out of these activities came two books—Causes and Consequences and Practical Agitation. Both stressed his belief that individuals should take a moral stand on issues troubling the nation.
1901 - Chapman had a nervous breakdown and for several years wrote little other than plays for children.
1910 - A play for adults, The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold (published), marked his return to vigorous intellectual activity.
1912 - On the first anniversary of the lynching of a black man in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, Chapman hired a hall there and held a memorial service with only two others present.
1913-1932 - Chapman wrote some 25 books, including a biography of William Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist leader; collected Songs and Poems; and volumes of criticism such as Emerson, and Other Essays, Greek Genius, and Other Essays, and A Glance Toward Shakespeare). His fear that the quality of education in the United States was being destroyed by its excessive scale and its servitude to the needs of business was expressed in his New Horizons in American Life.
1933 - He died on November 4th in Poughkeepsie, New York.
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