Jesse Grant Chapline (13 January 1870 – 4 July 1937) was an American educator and politician who founded the distance learning facility La Salle Extension University (LSEU) in Chicago, Illinois.Bishop, Glenn A. and Paul Thomas Gilbert Chicago's accomplishments and leaders. Bishop Pub. Co., 1932Herringshaw, Mae Felts (1919). Herringshaw's City Blue Book of Biography: Chicagoans of 1919. Clark J. Herringshaw Pub. Co.
Life and career Born in Waverly, Missouri, Chapline graduated from Saint Louis College. He founded LSEU in 1908.Press Club of Chicago (1922). Official reference book. Chapline hired Napoleon Hill as LSEU's advertising manager and is acknowledged as an inspiration in Hill's best-seller Think and Grow Rich.Hill, Napoleon (1937). Think and Grow Rich. Wilder Publications,
He served as director of the Commercial Research Association, manager of John Wanamaker's Century Club in Philadelphia, and president of the Associated Publishing Company. Chapline died in Chicago, Illinois in 1937.Staff report (July 3, 1937). Jesse G. Chapline, Noted Educator, Dies Suddenly. Chicago TribuneStaff report (July 6, 1937). Jesse G. Chapline; Head of the La Salle Extension University Dies in Chicago. New York Times
References