All Things Chapin

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Presidential Cousins linked through the Chapin Line

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

John Reuben Chapin

John Reuben Chapin was an illustrator for the Harper's Magazine. A story by Judy Chapin Buzby tells how the Chapin family was connected to Samuel FB Morse.

http://www.isledegrande.com/buzby.htm

Wikipedia note...

John R Chapin (1827-1907) was a 19th-century American artist and illustrator, who worked for Harper's Magazine. He was especially noted for a series of illustrations entitled Artist life in the highlands of New Jersey published in April 1860 which gave a realistic depiction of the daily life of miners.

JR Chapin Illustration of the great Chicago fire....

Friday, August 24, 2012

My Great Grandfather Lyman Chapin

Waterloo Daily Courier in Iowa (Thursday, August 29, 1907.) A good many years ago when comrade Lyman Chapin was a youngster in his teens some one made him a present of a calf. And then he bought another calf for which he paid a trifle more than a song. The two calves grew up to be a yoke of oxen.

That’s the way calves frequently did in those days. When these oxen were about four years old they were well “broke”.

They weighed nearly two tons and they were the most powerful yoke of cattle on the Wapsie. In 1854, Lyman sold the oxen and with the money he bought a quarter section of land in the Fremont township at $1.25 an acre. Comrade Chapin still owns that farm; it is one of the most valuable farms on the Wapsie and it would take two-thirds of the original cost of the farm to buy one acre of it now.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Springfield Massachusetts Map circa 1645

My Great Grandfather Deacon Samuel Chapin's property in Springfield, Mass is located about 3/4 of the way up on the left map. between Geo. Moxon and Thomas Reeve. Many of these land owners also had land on the other side of the Connecticut River which they used to grow their food. Samuel Chapin was one of the founders of Springfield.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Warren Buffett

Financial Wizard Warren Buffett is a descendant of Deacon Samuel Chapin through Catherine Chapin's line.

Warren Buffett Chapin Line...

Deacon Samuel Thomas Chapin

→ Catherine Bliss Gilbert

→ Margaret Foote her daughter

→ Ephraim Foote her son

→ Margaret Foote his daughter

→ Margaret Jones her daughter

→ Margaret Barber her daughter

→ Lawrence Barber her son

→ Ford Bela Barber his son

→ Stella Frances Stahl his daughter

→ Leila Stahl Buffet her daughter

→ W. Buffett her son

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Chapin Famous Cousins

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.

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....