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Johnny Appleseed (born John Chapman; September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845) was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds (as opposed to trees grown with grafting [1]) to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Ontario, as well as the northern counties of West Virginia.
Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman CBE (19 May 1928 – 16 December 1982) was an English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of the sports car company Lotus Cars. [2] Chapman founded Lotus in 1952 and initially ran Lotus in his spare time, assisted by a group of enthusiasts.
John Wilbur Chapman (June 17, 1859, Richmond, Indiana – December 25, 1918, ... which was founded in 1922 as an extension of the summer conferences.
John Chapman (Medal of Honor) (1844–1905), French soldier who fought in the American Civil War John Henry Chapman (1860–1942), British businessman and philatelist John Chapman (Australian Army officer) (1896–1963), Australian Army general of WWII
John Chapman OSB (25 April 1865 – 7 November 1933) was an English Roman Catholic priest, the 4th Abbot of Downside Abbey of the English Benedictine Congregation from 1929 until his death, and a New Testament and patristics scholar. He is best known for having founded one of the private schools in Britain: Worth, in West Sussex.
Chapman was born in New York City on March 2, 1862. [2] He was a son of Henry Grafton Chapman Jr. (1833–1883), [3] a broker who became president of the New York Stock Exchange, [1] and Eleanor Kingsland Jay (1839–1921).
John Allan Chapman (July 14, 1965 – March 4, 2002) was a combat controller in the United States Air Force who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor on August ...
Augustus Chapman Allen (July 4, 1806 – January 11, 1864), along with his younger brother, John Kirby Allen, founded the City of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas. He was born on July 4, 1806, in Canaseraga Village, New York (now the hamlet of Sullivan in the Town of Sullivan, New York), [1] to Sarah (Chapman) and Roland Allen.