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Biography
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Full Birth Name:
Cressel Lyle Chapman (Jack)
Birth Date:
June 10 1912
Birth Place:
Lake Ariel PA
Death Date:
February 3 1999
Death Place:
Scranton PA
Father:
Arleigh Burr Chapman
Mother:
Emily Jane Phillips
Spouse:
Mary Loretta Beauman (Mae)
Children:
Rosemary Joan Chapman (Posy)
John Arleigh Chapman
Married: June 20, 1936 Moved to NJ to find work and learned to coil transformers on the job. Studied on his own and learned to design them. Worked for several different companies. Apparently was designing transformers for radar systems during WWII and was considered essential so that he was not drafted to serve in the military. Eventually got a job as an electrical engineer at Lockheed. While at Lockheed he designed the prototype for a transformer used as part of the video system on the first Viking mission to Mars.
He retired from there around 1974 and he and Mae moved back to Pennsylvania.
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