All lines of the Chapin clan have some amazing people in them.
I have just started tracking it down, but here are a few:
Hannah Chapin descendants include:
Pres. Grover Cleveland and Canada PM Richard Bennett
Catherine Chapin's line includes:
Harriet Beecher-Stowe, abolitionist John Brown & Noah Webster, Clint Eastwood and Hugh Hefner
Japhet includes:
Financier JP Morgan, Artist James Chapin, Singer Harry Chapin and the rest of their musically talented family.
Henry Chapin's line includes:
Spencer Tracy
Josiah Chapin's line includes:
Sec of War Alphonso Taft and son President William Howard Taft.
William Howard Taft is my 3rd cousin 3x removed.
That's really close... our older generation of my relations
received books from the Taft Presidential library.
Family and descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin (1598–1675)
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Elvis
One connection that Elvis Presley has to the Chapin family is through Bethiah Thurston, Wife of Capt. Seth Chapin. Elvis is my 10th cousin once removed....
Elvis Aaron Presley is my 10th cousin once removed.
Elvis Aaron Presley is my 10th cousin once removed.
Janet Kaye (Chapin) Joens (1940)
your mother
Lyman C. Chapin (1908)
her father
William Densmore Chapin (1869)
his father
Lyman Chapin (1835)
his father→
John Chapin (1790)
his father
Jacob Chapin (1762)
his father
John Chapin, Jr. (1730)
his father
John Chapin, Sr. (1698)
his father
Bethiah Thurston
his mother
Mary Wood, twin
her mother
Mary Pidge
her mother
Capt. Isaac B. Williams, Sr. (1638-1708)
her brother
Hannah Elizabeth Williams
his daughter
Ann Elizabeth Jett
her daughter
Mary Tapp
her daughter
Moses Tapp
her son
Elizabeth Gideon
his daughter
Lydia Wallace
her daughter
John Henry Wallace
her son
Jessie D. McDowell Presley
his son
Vernon Elvis Presley
his son
Elvis Aaron Presley
his son
Financier JP Morgan
Financier JP Morgan is a 5th great grandson of Deacon Samuel Chapin.
Some of the information about cousin JP Morgan are not necessarily written in glowing reviews. I saw a documentary recently that portrayed him as a devil when dealing with famed electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla. Other biographies put him in the category of one of the great robber barons of the 19th century. A time at the booming of the industrial revolution when there were seemingly no limits to corporate greed and expansion.
Some of the information about cousin JP Morgan are not necessarily written in glowing reviews. I saw a documentary recently that portrayed him as a devil when dealing with famed electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla. Other biographies put him in the category of one of the great robber barons of the 19th century. A time at the booming of the industrial revolution when there were seemingly no limits to corporate greed and expansion.
John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier, banker and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric. After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company he merged in 1901 with the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses, including Consolidated Steel and Wire Company owned by William Edenborn, to form the United States Steel Corporation.
Morgan died in Rome, Italy, in 1913 at the age of 75, leaving his fortune and business to his son, John Pierpont "Jack" Morgan, Jr., and bequeathing his mansion and large book collections to The Morgan Library & Museum in New York.
At the height of Morgan's career during the early 1900s, he and his partners had financial investments in many large corporations and were accused by critics of controlling the nation's high finance. He directed the banking coalition that stopped the Panic of 1907. He was the leading financier of the Progressive Era, and his dedication to efficiency and modernization helped transform American business. Morgan redefined conservatism in terms of financial prowess coupled with strong commitments to religion and high culture.[1]
Monday, August 15, 2011
Cousin Bing Crosby (1903-1977) American Singer
Artwork by Gregory Chapin Joens
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
US President Grover Cleveland
Artwork by Gregory Chapin Joens
His wife, Frances Folsom Cleveland
Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the USA
Rev. Richard Falley Cleveland
his father
Margaret Cleveland
his mother
Margaret Falley
her mother
Samuel Hitchcock
her father
John Hitchcock, Jr.
his father
Hannah Chapin (1644)
his mother
Deacon Samuel Chapin
her father
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897) and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents. He was the winner of the popular vote for president three times—in 1884, 1888, and 1892—and was the only Democrat elected to the presidency in the era of Republican political domination that lasted from 1860 to 1912.
Cleveland was the leader of the pro-business Bourbon Democrats who opposed high tariffs, Free Silver, inflation, imperialism and subsidies to business, farmers or veterans. His battles for political reform and fiscal conservatism made him an icon for American conservatives.[1] Cleveland won praise for his honesty, independence, integrity, and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism.[2] As a reformer he worked indefatigably against political corruption, patronage, and bossism. His second term coincided with the Panic of 1893, a severe national depression that Cleveland was unable to reverse. It ruined his Democratic party, opening the way for Republican landslides in 1894 and 1896, and for the agrarian and silverite seizure of his Democratic party in 1896. The result was a political realignment that ended the Third Party System and launched the Fourth Party System and the Progressive Era.[3]
Cleveland took strong positions and in turn took heavy criticism. His intervention in the Pullman Strike of 1894 to keep the railroads moving angered labor unions nationwide and angered the party in Illinois; his support of the gold standard and opposition to Free Silver alienated the agrarian wing of the Democratic Party.[4] Furthermore, critics complained that he had little imagination and seemed overwhelmed by the nation's economic disasters—depressions and strikes—in his second term.[4] Even so, his reputation for honesty and good character survived the troubles of his second term. Biographer Allan Nevins wrote, "in Grover Cleveland the greatness lies in typical rather than unusual qualities. He had no endowments that thousands of men do not have. He possessed honesty, courage, firmness, independence, and common sense. But he possessed them to a degree other men do not."[5] Source: Wikipedia
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon... Chapin cousins
There are a more than handful of Hollywood actors that have New England roots and connections to the Chapin Clan. New Englanders Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are best friends and cousins. They are also my 14th and 16th cousins respectively... through my particular Chapin branch.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
William and Kate - Cousins
Artwork: Gregory Chapin JoensFriday, July 22, 2011
Alphonso Taft - US Secretary of War, US Attorney General
Artwork: Gregory Chapin JoensAlphonso Taft (November 5, 1810 – May 21, 1891) was the Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant and the founder of an American political dynasty. He was the father of U.S. President William Howard Taft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonso_Taft
Family Tree:
Ambassador Alphonso Taft, U.S. Attorney General, Secretary of War
Sylvia Taft
his mother
Berthiah Howard
her mother
John Chapin, Jr. (1730)
her father
John Chapin, Sr. (1698)
his father
Capt Seth Chapin (1668)
his father
Josiah Chapin, Esq. (1637)
his father
Deacon Samuel Chapin
his father
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Artwork: Gregory Chapin JoensSource: Wikipedia
Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) depicted life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day.
Francis Stuart Chapin - sociologist and educator.
Artwork: Gregory Chapin Joens
Francis Stuart Chapin (3 February 1888 – 7 July 1974) was an American sociologist and educator.
He received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1909, as well as his PhD from the same school in 1911. He taught economics at Wellesley College for one year. He then moved to Smith College where he taught sociology and served as department chair (1912-1921).
He played an important role in creation of a quantitative, statistical sociology in the United States in the years between World War I and World War II (1920-40).
He also served as the 25th President of the American Sociological Association. He was a prime mover in the creation of the Social Science Research Council.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Clint Eastwood is a Chapin Cousin
Artwork: Gregory Chapin JoensFrom Wikipedia:
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Following his breakthrough role on the TV series Rawhide (1959–1965), Eastwood starred as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti westerns (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) in the 1960s, and as San Francisco Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films (Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool) during the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, along with several others in which he plays tough-talking no-nonsense police officers, have made him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity.[1][2]
Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor, for his work in the films Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). These films in particular, as well as others including Play Misty for Me (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Pale Rider (1985), In the Line of Fire (1993), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), and Gran Torino (2008), have all received commercial success and/or critical acclaim. Eastwood's only comedies have been Every Which Way but Loose (1978), its sequel Any Which Way You Can (1980), and Bronco Billy (1980); despite being widely panned by critics, the "Any Which Way" films are the two highest-grossing films of his career after adjusting for inflation.
Eastwood has directed most of his own star vehicles, but he has also directed films in which he did not appear such as Mystic River (2003) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), for which he received Academy Award nominations and Changeling (2008), which received Golden Globe Award nominations. He has received considerable critical praise in France in particular, including for several of his films which were panned in the United States, and was awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994 he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal and in 2007 was awarded the Légion d'honneur medal. In 2000 he was awarded the Italian Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.
Since 1967, Eastwood has run his own production company, Malpaso, which has produced the vast majority of his films. He also served as the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988. Eastwood has seven children by five women, although he has only married twice. An audiophile, Eastwood is also associated with jazz and has composed and performed pieces in several films along with his eldest son, Kyle Eastwood.
Inventor Daryl M. Chapin
Born July 21, 1906 - Died January 19, 1995
Did you know? Chapin Cousin Daryl M. Chapin was part of a team from Bell Labs who invented the first practical device for converting sunlight into useful electrical power.
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/375.html
Submitting articles to All Things Chapin
If you have an item of Chapin history you would like to post, please let me know. It would be great to have the input! Thank you, Greg Chapin Joens
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Chapin Sprayers
There are lots of businesses out there under the Chapin name. One Chapin product that has been around for a long time is the Chapin Sprayer. I bought a Chapin sprayer recently from our local Ace Hardware and didn't even know it. The Chapin Sprayer manufactures a line of sprayers specifically for the Ace Hardware Company with the same high standards they have always had for all their sprayers.
Wikipedia:
Wikipedia:
R.E. Chapin Manufacturing Works
Founded by R. E. Chapin in 1884, the company originally started in the back of a hardware store in Oakfield, New York, producing kerosene oil storage containers for oil lamps. Early in 1900's, after relocating to Batavia, the company began producing hand-operated garden sprayers, and today builds household, industrial and professional sprayers for worldwide distribution.
In Memory of Harry Chapin
In memory of Harry Chapin, who died on this date (July 16, 1981) 30 years ago.
Harry Chapin's legacy lives on through his music, but also through his charity and compassion shown through the organization he founded, "Why."
“Oh if a man tried to take his time on Earth and prove before he died what one man’s life could be worth I wonder what would happen to this world.” -Harry Chapin
Artwork: Gregory Chapin JoensChapin Family History - William Richard Cutter
Deacon Samuel Chapin
Tradition says that he was born or lived in Dartmouth, England, for a time, or at least sailed from that port, about 1635, while there is reason for the belief that he came over in 1631 or 1632 in the "Lyon," if he was not of the original Pyncheon company. He was a contemporary with Pyncheon in the settlement of Roxbury, Massachusetts. He followed him to Springfield and was known as "Pyncheon's right-hand man" and one of the "founders of Springfield ". He was made a freeman, June 2, 1641, and elected to town office in 1642. The Chapins of this country are all descended from him, according to the best authorities. He was a distinguished man in church and state. He was deacon of the Springfield church, elected in 1649, and employed to conduct services part of the time in 1656-57 when there was no minister in town. He was appointed commissioner to determine small causes, October 10, 1652, and his commission was indefinitely extended in 1654. His wife, Cicely -, died February 8, 1682-83; he died November 11, 1675. Of their children five were born in Europe: Catherine, Sarah, David, Henry and Josiah. Japhet was born August 15, 1642, and Hannah, December 2, 1644. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was a descendant of Catherine Chapin and President William H. Taft is of the Josiah Chapin line.
(II) Japhet, son of Deacon Samuel Chapin, was born in Springfield, October 15, 1642, died at Chicopee, February 20, 1712. He married (first) Abilinah Cooley, July 22, 1664, who died November 17, 1710; (second) Dorothy Root, of Enfield, Connecticut, May 31, 1711. Japhet Chapin settled first in Milford, Connecticut, where he was living November 16, 1669, when he took a deed from Captain John Pyncheon and built his house at the upper end of Chicopee street. He was in the fight at Turners Falls in 1675 in King Philip's war in which he was a volunteer, and his son Thomas was grantee of a large tract given to the soldiers and their descendants by the general court. He was, like his father, a man of great piety, a bulwark of the Puritan faith. Children: 1. Samuel, born July 4, 1665. 2. Sarah, March 16, 1668. 3. Thomas, May 10, 1671. 4. John, May 14, 1674. 5. Ebenezer, June 26, 1676, mentioned below. 6. Hannah, June 21, 1679. 7. Hannah, July 18, 1680; married, December 31, 1703, John Sheldon, of Deerfield; was taken captive by the Indians and kept in Canada two years. 8. David, November 16, 1682. 9. Jonathan, February 20, 1685, died in infancy. 10. Jonathan, September 23, 1688.
(III) Ebenezer, son of Japhet Chapin, was born in Chicopee, Massachusetts, June 26, 1676, died in Enfield, Connecticut, December 13, 1772. He married, in December, 1702, Ruth Janes, died January 18, 1736, daughter of Abel Janes, of Northampton. They had eleven sons, six of whom settled in Somers Mount and had farms adjoining. On the homestead at Enfield six generations have lived, each Ebenezer by name, and five generations are buried in one lot in the Enfield, Connecticut, cemetery. Children, born at Enfield: Rachel, August 27, 1703; Ebenezer, September 23, 1705, mentioned below; Noah, October 25, 1707; Seth, February 28, 1709; Catherine, January 4, 1711; Moses, August 24, 1712; Aaron, September 28, 1714; Elias, October 22, 1716; Reuben, September 3, 1718; Charles, December 26, 1720; David, August 18, 1722; Elisha, April 18, 1725; Phineas, June 26, 1726.
(IV) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (1) Chapin, was born at Enfield, Connecticut, September 23, 1705, died there March 1, 1751. He received from his father, April 7, 1749, three parcels of land in Somers, Connecticut, and lived there for a time. He returned to Enfield to live with and care for his father. His estate was distributed August 5, 1755, his wife Elizabeth being administrator. He married Elizabeth Pease, died July 6, 1786, aged seventy-four, daughter of Jonathan Pease, Children: Ebenezer, mentioned below; Eliphalet, Elizabeth, Ruth, Tabitha, Enener, Love.
(V) Ebenezer (3), son of Ebenezer (2) Chapin, was born September 29, 1734, died April 23, 1822. He enlisted, April 18, 1777, in Captain Peter Penniman's company, Colonel Wood's regiment, for service at Rhode Island; discharged May 7, 1777. Enlisted July 28, 1780, as sergeant in Captain Philip Ammidon's company, Colonel Nathan Tyler's regiment; marched on alarm to Rhode Island; discharged August 8, 1780. He resided on the homestead at Enfield. He married, May 4, 1758, Mehitable Bartlett, of Stafford, Connecticut, who died April 8, 1811, aged seventy-seven. His will was dated October 20, 1797, and mentions wife Mehitable, children Timothy, Mehitable Collins, Mary Pease, Susannah Booth, Sarah Barber, Tryphena Terry, Patty and Ebenezer. Children born in Enfield: Mehitable, June 7, 1760; Mary, April 28, 1762; Susannah, August 21, 1764; Ebenezer, June 15, 1766; Sarah, March 31, 1768; Tryphena, April 30, 1770; Timothy, April 12, 1772, mentioned below; Joel, May 6, 1774; Samuel, May 19, 1776; Patty, April 23, 1780.
(VI) Timothy, son of Ebenezer (3) Chapin, was born at Enfield, April 12, 1772, died June 30, 1858. He married (first) at Enfield, November 27, 1800, Lecty Barber, died July 12, 1804; (second) October 7, 1806, Susannah Terry, born March 23, 1778, died June 19, 1858. Children of first wife: Reuben, Timothy Barber. By second wife: Dan Terry, born March 8, 1808; Henry, June 10, 1810; Gilbert, November 18, 1812, Joel, August 16, 1815, mentioned below; Francis, August 1, 1820.
(VII) Joel, son of Timothy Chapin, was born in Enfield, August 16, 1815, died August 27, 1852. He was brought up on his father's farm, and received a good education in the public schools and at Yale College, although he did not graduate. He was a fine student and linguist, speaking several languages. He was licensed to preach, and although he was never settled over a pastorate he often supplied pulpits. In early life he taught school, and later established and maintained several boarding schools for boys. He was the author of a series of four grammars, two of which were issued shortly before his death. In politics he was a Whig. He married, at Enfield, September 1, 1841, Amelia, born May 1, 1818, died December 22, 1882, daughter of Elisha and Lovisa (Gleason) Parsons, of Enfield. Her father was a farmer and leading citizen in town and church. Children, born in Springfield, Massachusetts: 1. John Eliot, July 13, 1842. 2. Joel Leander, December 30, 1843; a remarkable boy, being intensely religious from early youth, a student of high rank, ambitious to be a missionary; enlisted in Company A, Sixteenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, in July, 1862; was slightly wounded at Antietam, in September, 1862, and captured with his regiment at Plymouth, April 20, 1864, and died in Andersonville prison, July 20, 1864. 3. Gilbert Warren, mentioned below.
(VIII) Gilbert Warren, son of Joel Chapin, was born at Springfield, Massachusetts, August 1, 1847. He received his education in the common schools, and worked on the farm in his boyhood. When he was eighteen years old he left home and began his business career as clerk in a wholesale carpet establishment. Soon after he took a position as clerk in a retail carpet store and at the end of his third year in business accepted a position in the office of the largest shoe jobbing concern in New York City. Altogether he spent seventeen years in the shoe business. He had some experience in the newspaper and insurance business. Since 1889 he has been in the Society for Savings of Hartford, the largest bank in New England (excepting Boston) and for many years has been its actuary. Mr. Chapin gained wide experience in the subject of investments and securities in pursuing an intricate and extended litigation in behalf of an estate in the prosecution of a trustee for breach of trust. This experience and the admirable training of a varied business life added to a natural aptitude for the investment department of the banking business. He has charge of the securities and accounts of the bank and represents various interests in the capacity of executor, conservator, trustee, etc.
Mr. Chapin is at present developing a tract of land and building for rental some handsome residences on Chapin place, Hartford. He is interested in local history and genealogy, especially in the Chapin family. He was the prime mover in forming the Chapin Family Association and has been its president from the time of organization. His pride in the family of Chapin is great and amply justified by the record of his ancestors. The name of Chapin is clean and honorable, with a few great names, and withal, faithful and honorable even in the humble walks of life. He is a member of the Hartford Historical Society, the Municipal Art Society, the Hartford Club and the Get Together Club. He is a Republican and a member of the Republican Club of Hartford, but has never sought or held public office. He is a member of the Connecticut Congregational Club and he and his family belong to the Farmington Avenue Congregational Church of Hartford.
He married (first) October 22, 1874, at Mansfield Center, Connecticut, Delia P., born February 4, 1849, in New York City, died January 31, 1902, daughter of Herbert Barrows and Cynthia Selima (Storrs) Campbell. Her father was a New York merchant. She had a sister Eugenie. Mr. Chapin married (second) November 17, 1909, Lucy G. Stock. His only child is Warren Storrs, born July 4, 1885, educated in the Hartford district and high schools, graduating in the class of 1903 and from Amherst College with the degree of A. B. in the class of 1907; now located in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he is associated with the Phelps Publishing Company in their advertising department.
(II) Josiah Chapin, son of Deacon Samuel Chapin (q. v.), was born probably 1634. He married (first) at the age of about twenty-four years, Mary King, in Weymouth, November, 1658. She died May 30, 1676. He married (second) at Ipswich, Lydia Brown, September 20, 1676. She died October 11, 1711. He married (third), June 22, 1713, Mehitable Metcalf, in Dedham. She died December 2, 1724. He died September 10, 1726, at the advanced age of ninety-two years. He settled in Weymouth and later in Braintree, where he lived for more than twenty years, and eleven of his fifteen children were born in Braintree, three in Weymouth and one in Mendon. He removed to Mendon in Worcester county, Massachusetts, where the fifteenth child was born in 1684. He was one of the original grantees of the town of Mendon, and one of its most prominent citizens in the early days. He built the first sawmill in the town. He held many public offices, and was chairman of the selectmen for twenty years. He represented the town in the general court. He left many descendants. The record of his children and grandchildren in his own handwriting has been preserved.
His children were:
1. Samuel, born November 11, 1659, Weymouth; drowned at sea, April 10, 1692. 2. John, June 11, 1661, Braintree; died at sea, 1686. 3. Mary, August 27, 1662, Braintree. 4. Deborah, June 16, 1664, Braintree; died August 16, 1668. 5. Josiah, December 17, 1665, Braintree; slain in Lord Russell's fight, May 20, 1693. 6. Shem, May 11, 1667, Braintree; died June 6, 1667. 7. Seth, August 4, 1668, mentioned below. 8. Joseph, May 17, 1670. 9. Henry, February 15, 1671, Braintree; died March 20, 1761. 10. Ephraim, December 18, 1673, Braintree. 11. Deborah, February 12, 1675. 12. Lydia, September 29, 1677, Braintree. 13. Sarah, March 12, 1679, Braintree. 14. David, November 11, 1680, Braintree. 15. Hannah, November 11, 1684, Mendon.
(III) Captain Seth Chapin, son of Josiah Chapin, was born August 4, 1668, at Braintree. He married (first) May Read. She died without issue September 12, 1689. He married (second) Bethia Thurston, March 25, 1691. She died after having fourteen children, March 2, 1744. He died April, 1746. It appears from the old proprietary records that Captain Seth Chapin had acquired a family home and domicile near the Post Land bridge on Mill river some time previous to May 26, 1700, for at that time he had the following-described parcel of land laid out to him: "Forty-five acres of the fourth division laid out to Seth Chapin and in possession of said Chapin, encompassing the said Chapin's homestead and meadow on the Mill River," etc. He went on adding parcel after parcel to his estate till he became the owner of several hundred acres in what is now Milford, Massachusetts. In 1713 he and his wife made a deed of gift to their son, Seth Jr., of sixty acres in what is now South Hopedale. They sold their homestead August 31, 1715, to Josiah Wood, formerly of Concord, and removed to Mendon to live with or near the venerable parents of Mr. Chapin. He held many places of honor and trust in Mendon. Children: 1. Seth, July 2, 1692, Medfield, mentioned below. 2. Bethia, February 16, 1693. 3. Josiah, March 1, 1695-96. 4. John, May 13, 1698. 5. Mary, April 30, 1700. 6. Samuel, June 2, 1702. 7. Deborah, June 14, 1704. 8. Hopestill, November 27, 1705. 9. Joseph, March 6, 1707. 10. Abigail, June 10, 1710. 11. Lydia, February 2, 1712. 12. Benjamin, April 6, 1713. 13. Ebenezer, December 23, 1714. 14. Japheth, February 24, 1716; died April 15, 1717.
(IV) Seth Chapin, son of Captain Seth Chapin, was born July 2, 1692, at Medfield, and married, February 5, 1713, Abigail Adams, aunt of John Adams, second president of the United States. She died April 18, 1722. His home place was in that part of Mendon now Hopedale, where he was a large land holder. He married (second) Elizabeth -. Children of first wife: 1. Sarah, July 3, 1715, at Mendon. 2. Mary, May 19, 1717. 3. Josiah, January 19, 1719. 4. Abigail, May 27, 1721; died April 28, 1722. Children of second wife: 5. Thomas, December 12, 1723. 6. Daniel, October 10, 1727. 7. Rachel, January 22, 1729. 8. Lydia, April 20, 1732. 9. Seth, December 11, 1733. 10. Moses, 1735.
(V) Lieutenant Josiah Chapin, son of Seth Chapin, was born January 19, 1719, in Mendon, Massachusetts, and died -. He married (first), 1744, Rachel Albee; he married (second), 1770, Mary Corbet, widow. Children of first wife: 1. Stephen, born December 27, 1745. 2. Abigail, May 13, 1747. 3. Adams, April 12, 1750. 4. Rhoda, September 17, 1752. 5. Lydia, March 14, 1755. 6. Deborah, June 10, 1757. 7. Josiah, March 21, 1759. 8. Simeon, November 4, 1761. 9. Rachel, May 7, 1764. 10. Levi, mentioned below. 11. Marvel, October 27, 1768.
(VI) Levi Chapin, son of Lieutenant Josiah Chapin, was born May 5, 1766, in Mendon, and died in Virginia, September 18, 1833. He married Anna Church, born January 5, 1772, in Bristol, Rhode Island, died November 8, 1846, Walpole, New Hampshire. Children: 1. Nathaniel, born November 21, 1792, Orange, Massachusetts. 2. Levi, July 2, 1796, Westmoreland, New Hampshire. 3. Hermon, mentioned below. 4. Jonathan, March 6, 1802, Westmoreland, New Hampshire. 5. Philip, September 5, 1805, Westmoreland, New Hampshire. 6. Rhoda Anna, May 12, 1808, Westminster, Vermont.
(VII) Hermon Chapin, son of Levi Chapin, was born October 9, 1799, in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, and died January 31, 1866, in Savannah, Georgia. He spent his boyhood in New Hampshire, and in early life traveled down the Connecticut river, selling lumber for Westmoreland and Walpole concerns. Later he left home and went to Hartford, where he learned the trade of plane making. He then started out to establish the business for himself, and bought land in Hartford for the purpose of building a shop. Owing to the influence of certain people who objected to having more factories in the town, he was obliged to look elsewhere for a site, and finally decided to locate in Pine Meadow, in the town of New Hartford. Here in 1826 he built a factory which was the foundation of the present large plant of The Chapin-Stephens Company. From 1826 until the time of his death he continued the manufacturing of carpenter's planes.
While on a visit to his son George, in the south, he died, January 31, 1866. He married Catharine Merrill, born June 23, 1805, at New Hartford. She died March 21, 1873, at the home of her son George, who was then living in Cleveland, Ohio. Children: 1. Ellen. 2. John. 3. Edward Merrill. 4. Hermon Terrill. 5. George Washington. 6. Philip Eugene. 7. Walter Francis. 8. Franklin. 9. Charles Francis. All are dead except Philip Eugene.
(VIII) Edward Merrill Chapin, son of Hermon Chapin, was born September 5, 1833, in New Hartford, and died there December 19, 1896. He was educated in the town schools, at a school in Litchfield, and at Suffield, Connecticut. Early in life he identified himself with his father in the manufacture of carpenter's planes and rules at Pine Meadow, and worked for him until his death, when he succeeded to the business. It had formerly been under the name of H. Chapin, which was now changed to H. Chapin's Son, and so continued until the latter's death. In connection with his manufacturing business he had large real estate interests, as his father had. He was a Republican in politics until the Blaine campaign, but from then until his death he remained a staunch Democrat. He held various town offices. He was town treasurer for several years and was several times representative to the legislature. He was also director of the State Prison, and served on the Reformatory Board. In religion he was an Episcopalian. His father had built the first Episcopal church in Pine Meadow.
He married, June 16, 1856, Mary Ellen, daughter of Hiram and Olive Pike. She was born July 5, 1833, in New Marlboro, Massachusetts, and removed to Canton, Connecticut, with her parents when two years of age. Children: 1. Hermon Mills, born September 17, 1866, New Hartford; vice-president of The Chapin-Stephens Company; married, June 22, 1898, Kate Louise White, of Warren, Massachusetts; child, Elizabeth Merrill Chapin, born January 24, 1900. 2. Frank Mortimer, mentioned below.
(IX) Frank Mortimer Chapin, son of Edward Merrill Chapin, was born June 28, 1869, in New Hartford, and was educated in the district schools of New Hartford. He attended The Gunnery School at Washington, Connecticut, for two years, tutored at home for one year, and attended Cheshire Military Academy for three years, from which he graduated in 1888. He passed examinations for the school of technology, but did not enter. Instead, he went into business with his father, and after the latter's death succeeded to the business with his brother under the name of The H. Chapin's Son Company. It was continued until 1901, when a consolidation was made with Stephens & Company, of Riverton, Connecticut, and the business was incorporated under the name of The Chapin-Stephens Company. Of this corporation Mr. Chapin is treasurer, and its success and growth is due in a large measure to his untiring efforts. The business conducts its own store at 126 Chambers street, New York, under the management of John E. Humason, son of Virgil P. Humason, who before his death in 1905 had charge of Stephens & Company's New York interests for twenty-five years before the consolidation. In politics Mr. Chapin is a Democrat. In 1908 he was first selectman of the town of New Hartford, and also candidate for presidential elector. He is a member of the school board, has been justice of the peace and member of the board of relief. In religion he is an Episcopalian, and is collector and treasurer of St. John's Episcopal Church, Pine Meadow. He is a past master of Amos Beecher Lodge, No. 121, A. F. and A. M., New Hartford; a member of Columbia Chapter, No. 31, R. A. M.; Lee Council, No. 25, R. S. M., of Collinsville; Washington Commandery, K. T. No. 1, of Hartford; past patron of Mayflower Chapter, No. 47, O. E. S., New Hartford; past venerable consul of New Hartford Camp, No. 9,612, Modern Woodmen of America; a member of the Connecticut Field Trial Club. He is also a member of the Country Club of Farmington, a member of the board of governors of the New Hartford Free Public Library, and a director and first vice-president of the New Hartford Savings Bank. On January 4, 1911, Governor Simeon E. Baldwin commissioned Mr. Chapin commissary general, with rank of colonel.
He married, March 24, 1891, Ellie Munger, daughter of Hon. H. Wales and Sarah (Munger) Lines, of Meriden, Connecticut. They have one daughter, Catharine Lines, born July 10, 1892, a student of Smith College.
Source: Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. New York, NY, USA: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911.
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This is the first posting of the ALL THINGS CHAPIN blog. I hope to be able to create something here that will include additional articles and photos from other members of the Chapin family.
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