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Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Page 1067

VICTOR J. CHAMAGNE settled in the fall of 1881 on section 26, in Erie Township, where he has since been successfully operating 160 acres of good land. A native of the city of Louisville, Ky., he was born Nov. 14, 1837, and is the son of Francis and Margaret A. (Berry) Chamagne, who were natives of the Province of Lorraine, France.

             The parents of our subject were reared and married in their native land, and after the birth of two children emigrated, in 1829, to the United States. They settled in Louisville, Ky., where the father was employed at his trade of ropemaker until his health failed, and where his death took place in 1846. The mother is still living, and now makes her home with our subject. She was born in 1809, and has consequently arrived at the advanced age of seventy-nine years.

             The parental household of our subject included six children, of whom the record is as follows: Lewis and Louisa were born in France; the former

died in the city of New Orleans, La., when nineteen years of age, and the latter, Mrs. Marris, makes her home with her brother, Victor J., of our sketch. The latter was the third child; Cecelia was born in Louisville, Ky., and is now the wife of James W. Brown, of West Wichita; Augustus died in Memphis, Tenn., about 1861; Mary L. is the wife of Joseph Luce, a mineralogist and chemist of Pueblo, Col.

             Our subject by the early death of his father was thrown upon his own resources when but a boy, and after being variously employed commenced serving an apprenticeship in a foundry, and subsequently followed steamboat engineering, principally on the Lower Mississippi, at which he was occupied for a period of sixteen years. In 1874 he purchased a farm on the Ohio River, seventy miles below Louisville, and confined his attention to agricultural pursuits in that region until 1881. In the spring of that year he came into Southern Kansas, and purchased the quarter-section of land which he now occupies. He still owns his Kentucky farm of 216 acres.

             Our subject, while a resident of Kentucky, was united in marriage with Miss Virginia D. Hart, the wedding taking place at the home of the bride, in October, 1883. Mrs. Chamagne was born in Moorehouse Parish, La., and died in Benton County, Tex., where her husband had taken her for the benefit of her health, on the 27th of February, 1887. Her remains were there laid to rest. She left one child, a daughter Marcie, who was born in November, 1884; and is now with her father. Mr. Chamagne usually votes with the Democratic party, although reserving the right of an independent American to support the men whom he considers best qualified for office. Religiously, he is a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

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