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- 1 2 3 4 "Legislator Details - Leander Chapman". Library of Michigan . Retrieved November 26, 2019.
- ↑ History of Jackson County, Michigan. 1881. p. 240.
- ↑ History of Jackson County, Michigan, p. 310.
- 1 2 History of Jackson County, Michigan, p. 570.
- ↑ "Chapman". Political Graveyard . Retrieved November 26, 2019.
- 1 2 3 "Death of Judge Chapman". The Courier. Waterloo, Iowa. September 12, 1872. p. 3. Retrieved December 21, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Democratic National Ticket". Sioux City Register. Sioux City, Iowa. October 29, 1864. p. 1. Retrieved December 21, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
