Frank Michler Chapman 1864-November 15, 1945 His father was Lebbeus Chapman, Jr. a New York Lawyer. His mother was Mary Augusta Parkhurst who was born June 12, 1864 in West Englewood, New Jersey. Attended Englewood Academy, graduated age 16. Joined: American Exchange National Bank of New York. Resigned from Bank: 1886. 1888: Appointed assistant to J. Arthur Allen at Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. $50/month. 1898: Married Fanny Bates Embury. 1901: Associate Curator Mammals and Birds. 1908: Curator of Birds. 1913: Brown University conferred degree Doctor of Science. Director of Publications for the American Red Cross during WW I. 1920: named Chairman of new Dept. of Birds. Died: Nov. 15, 1945 in New York City.

Frank's father's musical inheritance is worthy of further brief comment. His son, a gifted singer, and his daughter-in-law, who is Miss Gladys Swarthout, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, regarded him as an almost infallible critic and commentator. He never pulled his punches when evaluating a performance; he had an incredible ear for tone and seemingly flawless judgment regarding music, old or new, that he had never before heard. Five months after Dr. Chapman's death, on April 24, 1946, a memorial meeting was held at the American Museum of Natural History. The large hall was filled with his friends and colleagues and with admirers from all walks of life. Those who made brief but memorable addresses represented various relationships of his career. They comprised Dr. Leonard C. Sanford for the Trustees of the Museum, Mr. Guy Emerson for the National Audubon Society, Mrs. Elsie M. B. Naumburg for Dr. Chapman's own staff, Mr. John Kieran for amateur naturalists in general, Dr. Herbert J. Spinden for explorers, Lieutenant Commander Peter Scott, R.N.R., for the painters of birds and for ornithologists across the sea, and the Honorable Frederick C. Walcott, former United States Senator from Connecticut, who spoke as a fellow-worker with Dr. Chapman in the wilds of Magellanic South America. To close the meeting, which none then present will forget, Dr. Chapman's daughter-in-law, Gladys Swarthout, sang the Lord's Prayer, set to the music of Malotte.