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Chapman (J WILBUR an American clergyman)

J. WILBUR, an American clergyman and evangelist, born in Richmond, Ind., in 1859. He graduated from Lake Forest University in 1879 and from Lane Theological Seminary in 1882. In the latter year he was ordained Presbyterian minister. He served as pastor in Albany, N. Y., and Philadelphia, and in 1893 began evangelistic work, which he carried on with great activity in all parts of the United States. Among his published writings were "The Lost Crown"; "The Secret of a Happy Day"; "Present-Day Parables"; "Chapman's Pocket Sermons," and "When Home Is Heaven." He died in 1918.