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Nationality
  
American

Occupation
  
Educator


Name
  
Jesse Chapline

Education
  
Saint Louis University

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Born
  
13 January 1870 (
1870-01-13
)

Known for
  
Died
  
July 4, 1937, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Jesse Grant Chapline (13 January 1870 – 4 July 1937) was an American educator and politician who founded distance learning facility La Salle Extension University (LSEU) in Chicago.

Jesse Grant Chapline LaSalle Extension University signed by Founder Jesse Grant Chapline

Life and career

Born in Waverly, Missouri, he graduated from Saint Louis College. He founded LSEU in 1908. Chapline hired Napoleon Hill as LSEU advertising manager and is acknowledged as an inspiration in Hill's best-seller Think and Grow Rich.

He served as director of the Commercial Research Association, manager of John Wanamaker's Century Club in Philadelphia, and as president of the Associated Publishing Company. Chapline died in Chicago, Illinois.

References

Jesse Grant Chapline Wikipedia


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