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George Chiffman Aplin

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George Chiffman Aplin

Birth
Dorchester, West Dorset District, Dorset, England
Death
14 Dec 1889 (aged 65)
Saint Paul, Marion County, Oregon, USA
Burial
Saint Paul, Marion County, Oregon, USA GPS-Latitude: 45.2105148, Longitude: -122.9715986
Plot
Block 10, Lot 6, Plot 1
Memorial ID
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Also; Heorgius Chiffman Aplin. (derivative of George)
"Catholic Church Records of the Pacific Northwest", Vancouver, Volume II, page 100, entry B#663. (Adult baptism - 17 September 1948)
"Catholic Church Records of the Pacific Northwest", St. Paul, Vol. III, Page 192, Entry S-5,
George C. Aplin
"On December 20, 1889, George C. Aplin, married man, aged 65 years, died and was buried in the cemetery of St. Paul. Present, Firmin Lebrun, John Gearin, D. Gagnon and others.
F. X. Blanchet, Rector"

(same source: Page A-1
"Aplin, George Chiffman 1824-1889
Aplin came from Dorchester, England, and is said to have been an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company before retiring to the Prairie. His Donation Land Claim record states that he had arrived in Oregon in 1848 and "was temporarily absent 30 to 60 days in 1850, helping neighbors with harvest" in the same year in which he had settled his own claim at Champoeg. His wife was Marie Wagner, daughter of Peter Wagner, a butcher at Fort Vancouver. Fourteen children are said to have born to the Aplins, but few descendants bearing the name remain today. The Pioneer Memorial cabin at Champoeg Park is modelled after the Aplin house and contains one of the original box stoves that had belonged to the Mission and was later bought by Aplin. His home not far from the the site of the present building was badly damaged by the great flood of 1890-91, but the stove was salvaged. The Aplin lot in the present St. Paul Cemetery is well marked."
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Lives Lived West of the Divide:
A Biographical Dictionary of Fur Traders Working West of the Rockies, 1793-1858 Bruce McIntyre Watson Centre for Social, Spatial and Economic Justice, UBC, Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, 2010PDF format, p. 268 (286/1292)Chiffmanaplin, George [variation: Chiffman Aplin] (c. 1825 - 1889) (British: English)Birth: probably Dorchester, England - c. 1825 Death: St. Paul, Oregon - December 1889 Fur trade employee HBC Middleman, Fort Vancouver general charges (1846 - 1848).

George Chiffman Aplin joined the HBC in 1845 in England on a three year contract. He didn't stay long with the HBC, however, for he worked until March 1, 1849 at which point he went to California, presumably lured there by the gold fields. On September 17, 1848, at Fort Vancouver, he converted from the Presbyterian Church of Scotland to Catholicism and thereon after in the Catholic Church Records appeared as George Chiffman Aplin. After returning from California he retired to the St. Paul area of French Prairie in the Willamette Valley, where he raised a family. He died in 1889 and was buried in the St. Paul cemetery.
George Chiffman Aplin had one wife and fourteen children. On December 26, 1850, he married Marie Wagner (daughter of Fort Vancouver butcher Peter Wagner and wife Louise). Their fourteen children were: Mary Elizabeth Aplin (1851-1914), Genevieve (1853-?), George Edouard (1854-1933), Genevieve (1857-?), an unnamed child (1859-1859), Marie Josephine (1860-1925), John Albert (1862-), Alfred F. (1864-1941), James Stephen (1866-1937), Theodore (1869-1869), Gilbert Joseph (1871-1965), Patrick Bartholomew "Bart" (1873-1947), William Wilfred (1876-1888) and Alphonse Remy (1878-1894).
Also; Heorgius Chiffman Aplin. (derivative of George)
"Catholic Church Records of the Pacific Northwest", Vancouver, Volume II, page 100, entry B#663. (Adult baptism - 17 September 1948)
"Catholic Church Records of the Pacific Northwest", St. Paul, Vol. III, Page 192, Entry S-5,
George C. Aplin
"On December 20, 1889, George C. Aplin, married man, aged 65 years, died and was buried in the cemetery of St. Paul. Present, Firmin Lebrun, John Gearin, D. Gagnon and others.
F. X. Blanchet, Rector"

(same source: Page A-1
"Aplin, George Chiffman 1824-1889
Aplin came from Dorchester, England, and is said to have been an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company before retiring to the Prairie. His Donation Land Claim record states that he had arrived in Oregon in 1848 and "was temporarily absent 30 to 60 days in 1850, helping neighbors with harvest" in the same year in which he had settled his own claim at Champoeg. His wife was Marie Wagner, daughter of Peter Wagner, a butcher at Fort Vancouver. Fourteen children are said to have born to the Aplins, but few descendants bearing the name remain today. The Pioneer Memorial cabin at Champoeg Park is modelled after the Aplin house and contains one of the original box stoves that had belonged to the Mission and was later bought by Aplin. His home not far from the the site of the present building was badly damaged by the great flood of 1890-91, but the stove was salvaged. The Aplin lot in the present St. Paul Cemetery is well marked."
. . . . . . .
Lives Lived West of the Divide:
A Biographical Dictionary of Fur Traders Working West of the Rockies, 1793-1858 Bruce McIntyre Watson Centre for Social, Spatial and Economic Justice, UBC, Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, 2010PDF format, p. 268 (286/1292)Chiffmanaplin, George [variation: Chiffman Aplin] (c. 1825 - 1889) (British: English)Birth: probably Dorchester, England - c. 1825 Death: St. Paul, Oregon - December 1889 Fur trade employee HBC Middleman, Fort Vancouver general charges (1846 - 1848).

George Chiffman Aplin joined the HBC in 1845 in England on a three year contract. He didn't stay long with the HBC, however, for he worked until March 1, 1849 at which point he went to California, presumably lured there by the gold fields. On September 17, 1848, at Fort Vancouver, he converted from the Presbyterian Church of Scotland to Catholicism and thereon after in the Catholic Church Records appeared as George Chiffman Aplin. After returning from California he retired to the St. Paul area of French Prairie in the Willamette Valley, where he raised a family. He died in 1889 and was buried in the St. Paul cemetery.
George Chiffman Aplin had one wife and fourteen children. On December 26, 1850, he married Marie Wagner (daughter of Fort Vancouver butcher Peter Wagner and wife Louise). Their fourteen children were: Mary Elizabeth Aplin (1851-1914), Genevieve (1853-?), George Edouard (1854-1933), Genevieve (1857-?), an unnamed child (1859-1859), Marie Josephine (1860-1925), John Albert (1862-), Alfred F. (1864-1941), James Stephen (1866-1937), Theodore (1869-1869), Gilbert Joseph (1871-1965), Patrick Bartholomew "Bart" (1873-1947), William Wilfred (1876-1888) and Alphonse Remy (1878-1894).


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