Baum Character Registry · Person / intelligent being
Nick Chopper's Father
A canonical individual in the Baum-only Character Census. Appearance evidence is chronological and text-grounded.
Editorial identifierMentioned / historical individual
Registry
Character record
- Knowledge ID
- CHAR-0244
- Registry ID
- char-0244
- Canonical display name
- Nick Chopper's Father
- Naming status
- Editorial identifier
- Character type
- Person / intelligent being
- Participation
- Mentioned / historical individual
- First matched appearance
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · Ch. 5
Oz Knowledge Base
First-class Knowledge entity
This Character Registry record is a canonical first-class Knowledge entity.
- Claims
- 0
- Relationships
- 0
- Historical Atlas events
- 0
Appearance Profile
Text-grounded appearance
Appearance is tracked only where Baum supplies textual evidence; absence of description is not filled from illustration traditions.
Appearance Timeline
Appearance states
No enriched appearance state yet. The registry deliberately records “not yet extracted” rather than inferring hair, eyes, clothing, size, or materials.
Baum evidence
First matched textual evidence
d the following story: "I was born the son of a woodman who chopped down trees in the forest and sold the wood for a living. When I grew up, I too became a woodchopper, and after my father died I took care of my old mother as long as she lived. Then I made up my mind that instead of living alone I would marry, so that I might not become lonely. "There was one of the Munchkin girls who was so beautiful that I soon grew to lo
Editorial notes
Identity handling
- Display label is editorial; it is not presented as a proper name supplied by Baum.