Alonzo chappel biography

Chappel's career was flourishing, but his personal life was marred by the death of his wife, Almira, June 14, 1863, leaving him a widower in charge of four children.

Some years later he remarried Abbie J. Briggam, a widow with one son. Abbie and he may have had additional children. It is known that Chappel had a son named Alonzo and a daughter called Ollie, but little is known of them and nothing of any possible descendants.

In 1869 the Chappels purchased a parcel of land along Glover's Pond near Middle Island in Long Island's Suffolk County.

Around 1871 they built a house there, and he established a sort of art colony which resulted in the renaming of the pond to "Artist's Lake."

His enormous output became legendary during this period. (According to some reports a crew of young artists, nicknamed "Chappel's factory," completed his canvases in order to meet the publisher's deadlines; however, C