Chapman

Chapman

Chapman is an English occupational surname. A chapman was an itinerant seller in medieval Britain. It is the cognate of the German Kaufmann.

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Famous quotes containing the word chapman:

    A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
    —John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)

    There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
    —Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947)

    In all history no class has been enfranchised without some selfish motive underlying. If to-day we could prove to Republicans or Democrats that every woman would vote for their party, we should be enfranchised.
    —Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947)