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HERMAN F. CHAPMAN 1888-1973
Grand Master of South Dakota, 1937-1938
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BIOGRAPHY
From "The First 100 Years of the Grand Lodge A.F. & A.M. of South Dakota, 1875-1975", Page 146:
Herman F. Chapman, the sixty-fourth Grand Master of Masons of South Dakota, was born at Alexandria, Dakota Territory, on February 9, 1888. He attended rural school, Alexandria High School, and spent a year at a business college in Mitchell. Then followed a year at the National Law School in Washington, D.C. Several years later he graduated from the University of South Dakota Law School in Vermillion.
On Christmas Day, 1914, he was united in marriage to Miss Lois Nichols of Vermillion. Their one child, Emery Phelps, died in infancy.
Brother Chapman was a member of the First Congregational Church.
He became a Master Mason in Pierre Lodge No. 27, October 4, 1915. Upon moving to Sioux Falls in 1917, he at once transferred his membership to Unity Lodge No. 130. All of Brother Chapman's labors were with the Blue Lodges and over the years he held various positions in the Grand Lodge.
1938
"Throughout the year I have been in almost continual contact, through correspondence and conference, with the various officers and groups in an endeavor to improve the methods, to quicken the action, and to broaden the scope of the information and interest of the members of this Grand Lodge. The dignity of labor has transcended the empty honor of mere position and constructive action has displaced mere conversation. To phrase it in semi-slang, 'hitch-hiking and coasting are out.'" These were the words of Grand Master Chapman in his address to the sixty-fourth Annual Communication at Rapid City in 1938.
The Grand Secretary reported a busy year when he said, "The pace set by our Grand Master and the material that has been prepared and set out has more that doubled previous years as indicated by the postage account."
Under 'Problem Lodges and Lodge Problems,' the Grand Master said, "Some of these so-called 'trouble lodges,' and a considerable number not yet so catalogued but entitled so to be, owe their distress to something besides drought, grasshoppers, and dust storms. They are in small towns and in areas of steadily decreasing populations and good roads and automobiles contribute to the grief of the few remaining faithful lodge attendants."
Charters had been arrested for Columbia Lodge No. 43, Elkton Lodge No. 57, and Fairfax Lodge No. 192. The charter had been restored to the Columbia Lodge after the membership was reorganized and after they had agreed to carry on their work in a proper manner.
The need for a bulletin to go to the membership was endorsed by the grand Master but the Board of General Activities said it would be too costly and did not care to undertake it at this time.
The demand on the Temporary Charity Fund increased, with the result that the Board of Trustees asked for $927.50 per month for a total of $11,130.00.
Brother N. E. Steele, Secretary of the South Dakota Education Association, was the speaker at the Annual Banquet held on Tuesday evening at the Alex Johnson Hotel for all Master Masons and their ladies.
The question of consideration of the proposed by-laws which had been printed and distributed to the constituent lodges ninety days prior to the Grand Lodge Session was discussed and, after several attempts to have them accepted, were deferred until the next Annual Communication.
