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)
