The Chapman Theatrical Company came to town. Father George, Alonzo son, Mrs. George (mother of 20), daughter Belle Chapman, Harry Chapman, and Miss Caroline Chapman. W. Stephenson, Harry Brown and Jimmy Griffiths also joined his West Coast shows. They had built the first showboat. Sam would have known of them. Along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers they played a huge number of plays, fishing, living on board, getting married on board, being born, dying. When Lincoln closed the river for commercial travel the family sold the barge and came to California. A Chapman had supposedly been an actor in the Chamberlain’s Men with Shakespeare – a story, Sam wouldnโt have believed. Caroline played Beauty in Beauty and the Beast. She Stoops to Conquer, The Hunchback, Box and Cox with some in blackface. ST – pg 104