Early Life

Chandler Burnell Chapman was a physician, surgeon, teacher born in Middlebury, Vermont. He graduated from Vermont Medical Academy in 1836 as well as New York State Medical College, and practiced medicine in Trumbull County, Ohio from 1837 from 1846, when he moved to Wisconsin and settled in Madison.

Achievements

He practiced medicine, accepted private students for instruction and opened a Practical School for Anatomy and Surgery in 1851. In November of 1853, Chapman accepted a position as professor of physiology and anatomy at Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and later taught chemistry at Miami College. During the Civil War he was surgeon of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry and later of the famous "Iron Brigade," which included the 2nd, 6th, and 7th regiments. After the war Chapman returned to Madison, where he continued his chemical and surgical experimentation and helped found the Dane County Medical Society. He was an early advocate of applied chemistry in agriculture, and was the author of a farmer's handbook, 'Chemistry for Farmers' in 1860. 

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