C. Stanley Chapman, Sr. papers

Charles Stanley Chapman (1889-1984) was the son of Charles C. Chapman, the first mayor of Fullerton and the namesake of Chapman University. He and his sister Ethel were born in Chicago, Illinois. His mother Elizabeth (Lizzie) developed tuberculosis and the doctor advised a drier climate. The family moved first to Texas and then west to California, arriving in Fullerton 1894, and became established in the citrus industry. C. Stanley Chapman attended Fullerton High School (Class of 1910), Pomona College and Yale University, starting in his junior year. After graduation he returned to Fullerton and joined his father in the orange growing business. He enlisted in the army during World War One. He trained at the Presidio Training Camp before being sent to France in 1917 as a first lieutenant with Battery B of the 5th Field Artillery assigned to the 1st Infantry Division of the American Expeditionary Force. He was discharged in 1919. Stanley succeeded his father as president of the Placentia Orchard Company and Chapman Building Company. One project was the construction of the Fox Fullerton Theatre in 1924 (originally named the Alician Court Theatre). He worked extensively with the Royal Arch Masons and the Shriners. He died in 1984, five years after his wife Alice. In 1989 the Chapman family donated the C. S. Chapman residence, El Dorado Ranch to California State University Fullerton under condition it would be used as residence for the CSUF president.