The Minor Chord: A Tale of the Middle West in the Early '70s

Chapple (1867-1950) was born in Iowa. In his early career he was a newspaper man in North Dakota and Chicago, and was for nearly a decade the editor and proprietor of the Ashland Daily Press in Wisconsin. In 1897 he went to Boston to take over editorship of the Bostonian, which was later re-named the National Magazine.