Genealogical and Family History of Western New York, Volume I, Part 73

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 680

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(IV) Caleb, ninth child of Joseph Allen, was born in Mendon, Massachusetts, July 22, 1758, died there August 23, 1785, aged twenty- seven years. He married and had a son Caleb.

(V) Caleb (2), son of Caleb (1) Allen, was born in Mendon, Massachusetts, in 1783. He settled in the town of Stephentown, Rens- selaer county, New York, in 1828; moved to Cayuga county, near Auburn, New York ; later to Phelps, Ontario, and in 1850 to Orleans county, New York, where he followed his trade of carpenter and builder until his death. He married Huldah Dawley. Children :

Olivia, Stephen N., Charles S., see forward ; Susan, Ira M., and Alonzo.

(VI) Charles S., second son of Caleb (2) Allen, was born in Stephentown, Rensselaer county, New York, August 1, 1813, died May 20, 1894, at Albion, New York. He was educated in the public schools and acquired a good education with a knowledge of land sur- veying, which he followed almost continuously after settling in the town of Barre, Orleans county, New York, in 1847. He taught school in his earlier years in Cayuga and Ontario counties, and while teaching fitted himself for a civil engineer and surveyor. He was one of the engineers in the construction of the Au- burn branch of the New York Central Rail- road, and for twenty-three years one of the ditch commissioners of Orleans county. He carried on farming in connection with his surveying, and became one of the best known and highly respected men of his town. He left among his papers a record of twenty-two hundred tracts of land he had surveyed in Or- leans and Ontario counties. He was one of the organizers of the Orleans County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and for many years a director. He was a Republican in politics, and a member of the Baptist church. In his latter years he left his farm and lived near the village of Albion, the present home of his son Alvin R., where he died. He married, in 1838, at Phelps, New York, Edna Robinson, born January 2, 1814, at Phelps, died February 5, 1901, at Albion. Children : 1. Alvin R., see forward. 2. Josephus, born at Phelps, New York, April 30, 1841, died in Barre, Orleans county, April 21, 1866. 3. Sarah, died in in- fancy. 4. Dr. A. Judson, born at Manchester. Ontario county, May 27, 1846, died at Lock- port, New York, July 1, 1911. 5. James G., born in Barre, New York, September 11, 1849, died in Albion. 6. William Carey, born in Barre, October 11, 1853; now a resident of Colorado Springs, Colorado. 7. Frank M .. born in Barre, November 21, 1858, died in the Adirondacks.

(VII) Alvin R., eldest son of Charles S. and Edna (Robinson) Allen, was born in Phelps, Ontario county, New York, March 6, 1839. He attended the Phelps schools until he was in his ninth year when his parents moved to the town of Barre, Orleans county. New York, where he finished his studies in the public schools. He taught school ten winter terms in the towns of Barre and Albion, after

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(V!) Alsip K., eldest son of Char'e. S and D'ina ( Robinson) Allen was born . Philus, Ontario county. New York. March .. 1830. He attended the Phelps schools uru, he was in Ins ninth year when his parces. moved to the town of Barre. Orleans & anty. New York, where he brushed his studies in . the public schools. L'e taught school ten winter terms in the towns of Barre and Albion. atter

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which he worked the home farm on shares for three years. He then purchased a farm of seventy acres in Barre, later bought two others adjoining, which gave him a combined farm of one hundred and sixty-five acres. This he operated as a joint general and fruit farm, having thirty-two acres of apples, thirty-seven acres of peaches, eight acres of pears and six acres of cherries. He disposed of these at dif- ferent times, the last in 1911. He now owns a farm of forty acres, on which he resides, known as the old Allen homestead, and a farm two miles west of one hundred and sixty-five acres; both are fruit farms, and he now has one hundred and twenty acres of fruit grow- ing. Mr. Allen is an enthusiast on the subject of fruit culture, and although seventy-two years of age has in the past six years planted fruit trees to the number of thirteen thousand five hundred on his several farms, and is the largest fruit grower in this section. He is healthy and active, and bears a high character in his county. In 1889 he was elected clerk of Or- leans county and took up his residence at Al- bion, the county seat. In 1892 he was re- elected, serving in all six years to the great satisfaction of all having business with the county clerk's office. He is a Republican, and a member for the past fifty-four years of the Albion Baptist church, of which he is now a deacon. He was formerly actively interested in the work of the Sunday sthool, of which he was superintendent, also a member of the prudential committee of the church.

He married, April 20, 1862, Anna D. Snell, born August 26, 1839, daughter of Daniel and Rebecca (Watts) Denham. Her parents died when she was a child and she was adopted by Hiram Snell, of Barre, whose name she bore. Children : I. Theoren P., born in Barre, July 30, 1866, died aged two years. 2. Charles S., born in Barre, November 28, 1867; married Frances Ford. 3. William J., born July 29, 1869, died aged four years. 4. Jessie, born October 20, 1871; married Kirk G. Bumpus, and resides in Detroit, Michigan; children : Jessie Allen, Josephine, Herbert W. and Hor- tense. 5. Dr. William Judson, born Novem- ber 24, 1877; now a practicing physician of Beloit, Wisconsin; he married Jessie Petrie, and has a daughter Gertrude. 6. Myrta Edna, born July 21, 1880; married Edward C. Moon, and resides in Rochester, New York; two children : Edna Allen and Louise.

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spelled in the early records of England and America, Chapin, Chapun, Chapinne, Chalpin, and several ex- planations of the origin of the name have been given. Rev. R. D. Chapin, of Allegan, Michi- gan, reports an interview with a well educated Swiss physician who said he formerly lived in France and was at one time much interested in philological studies, especially the history of names. He said that the name Chapin was one of the oldest and best names in France, dating from the Carlovingian era, going back at least to the tenth century, perhaps earlier. He gives the history of its probable origin. In some feudal scrimmage of the middle ages one who had distinguished himself got a sword-cut across his head, laying open his helmet or headpiece. For this exploit he was knighted on the field and dubbed Capinatus, which means "decorated with a hat," and his coat-of- arms was made a hat with a slash in it, thence the name Capinatus, the particle of the law- latin capino, and then by the softening process of the French made Capin-Chapin. Of course, the root is Caput, whence cap and chapeau. The Chapin coat-of-arms tends to verify the story.

(I) Deacon Samuel Chapin, immigrant an- cestor, was doubtless born in England, though the family, perhaps, centuries before, came from France to England. Two immigrants of this name came to New England about the same time. Both settled in Springfield. David Chapin was admitted a freeman there April 5, 1649, and was admitted an inhabitant of Bos- ton in 1658. He was probably a son of Deacon Samuel Chapin, though possibly a brother. Deacon Samuel Chapin came from England to Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1636, with sev- eral children. He settled permanently in Springfield, where he was admitted a freeman June 2, 1641, and was elected to a 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 was employed to conduct services part of the time in 1656-57, when there was no minister in the town. He was appointed commissioner to determine small cases, October 10, 1652, and his commission was indefinitely extended by the general court in 1654. He died November

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II, 1675. His will, dated March 4, 1674, be- queathed to wife, son Henry and grandson Thomas Gilbert. Springfield has a statue en- titled "The Puritan," by the eminent sculptor, Augustus St. Gaudens, which is a memorial to Deacon Samuel Chapin, describing him as "one of the founders of Springfield." It rep- resents him with the Bible in his hand, as on his way to the meeting house to lead in the re- ligious services. It is a remarkable work of art, and copies of it have been placed in the art museum at Boston, the Dresden Gallery, and in the Louvre at Paris.

He married Cicely -, who died Febru- ary 8, 1683. Her will mentions sons Henry Chapin, of Springfield, and Josiah Chapin, of Braintree ; daughters : Catherine, wife of Sam- uel Marshfield; Sarah Thomas, and Hannah Hitchcock, and Henry Gilbert. Her son Japheth was executor. Children, order of birth not known : I. Japheth, mentioned below. 2. Henry, died young. 3. Henry (q. v.). 4. Catherine, married, February 4, 1712, Samuel Marshfield. 5. David, born in England, probably not by wife Cicely. 6. Josiah. 7. Sarah, died August 5, 1684; married Rowland Thomas. 8. Hannah, born at Springfield, December 2, 1644, married September 27, 1666, John Hitchcock. 9. Daughter, married a son of Henry Gilbert.

(II) Japheth, son of Deacon Samuel Chap- in, was born in Springfield, October 15, 1642, died at Chicopee, February 20, 1712. He mar- ried (first), July 22, 1664, Abeline or Abi- lenah Cooley, who died at Chicopee, November 17, 1710, daughter of Benjamin Cooley. The gravestones of Japheth and his wife Abeline have been removed to the new cemetery. He married (second), May 31, 1711, Dorothy Root, of Enfield. She married (second), in 1720, Obadiah Miller, of Enfield. Japheth Chapin settled first at Milford, Connecticut, where he was living November 16, 1669, when he took a deed from Captain John Pynchon. March 9, 1666, John Pynchon deeded to Dea- con Samuel Chapin the greater part of the land in the valley between the Chicopee river and Willimansett brook. The latter piece of land Samuel deeded to his son Japheth, April 16, 1673, and there the latter built his house at the upper end of Chicopee street, northwest of the house lately owned by Henry Sherman. Japheth was in the fight at Turner's Falls in 1675 in King Philip's war, in which he was a volunteer, and his son Thomas was grantee of a large tract of land given to the soldiers

and their descendants by the general court of Massachusetts. Like his father, Japheth was a man of great piety, a bulwark of the Puritan faith. Children: 1. Samuel, mentioned be- low. 2. Sarah, March 16, 1668; married March 24, 1690, Nathaniel Munn. 3. Thomas, May 10, 1671, died August 27, 1755. 4. John, May 14, 1674, died June 1, 1759. 5. Eben- ezer, June 26, 1677, died December 13, 1772; married, December, 17.02, Ruth Janes. 6. Hannah, June 21, 1679, died July 7, 1679. 7. Hannah, July 18, 1680; married, December 31, 1703, John Sheldon, of Deerfield; taken cap- tive and kept in Canada two years.

(III) Samuel, son of Japheth and Abeline (Cooley) Chapin, was born July 4, 1665, died October 19, 1729. He lived on a farm at the upper end of Chicopee street, Springfield, near the home of his father. He was once shot by some raiding Indians from a neighboring village, but was not seriously wounded. He married, December 24, 1690, Hannah Shel- don. Children: Hannah, married John Mor- gan ; Abeline, married Joseph Colton; Mary, died young; Samuel, of whom further; Caleb, killed by Indians at Lake George in 1755; Ex- perience, married David Smith; Mary, born May 12, 1705, married, December 28, 1727, John Horton, of Skipmuck; Elisha, killed by Indians at Hoosac, July 11, 1756; Lydia, mar- ried Timothy Cooper ; Henry, died young.

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) and Hannah (Sheldon) Chapin, was born May 22, 1699, died 1779. He married, 1722-3, Anna, daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Horton : Chil- dren: Gad, born August 11, 1726; Jeremiah, married Caroline Fowler; Reuben, of whom further ; Submit, Eunice, Margaret, married Ezra Stebbins, Samuel.

(V) Reuben, son of Samuel (2) and Anna (Horton) Chapin, was born about 1730, died in Wilbraham, Massachusettts, at the age of about eighty years. He married Mary Mir- rick, of Springfield (intentions published January 16, 1761). She died at West Spring- field, October 23, 1800, aged sixty-four. Chil- dren : Lovica, married Nathan Colton; Jere- miah, died aged sixteen; Mary, married Noah Frost; Eunice, married Aaron Elwell; Jona- than, Reuben, of whom further; Lois, mar- ried Justin Alvord; Submit, married Alpheus Corbon.

(VI) Reuben (2), son of Reuben and Mary (Mirrick) Chapin, was born about 1770, died at North Providence, about 1835. He married,

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April 21, 1794, Lucinda Bolton. Children : Merrick Warren, Loring Dudley, of whom further ; Charlotte Horton, Lucinda Colton, Julianna Newbury, Rasselas Moody, Reuben Waterman, Adaline Wells.

(VII) Loring Dudley, second son of Reu- ben (2) and Lucinda (Bolton) Chapin, was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, De- cember 2, 1798, died 1846. He was educated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he remained from the age of twelve years to twenty. He then returned to Hartford, where he learned the trade of musical instrument maker. Later he removed to Providence, Rhode Island, where he married. He followed his trade until 1829, when he removed to New York City. Here he established a prosperous business from which he retired in 1832-33. In 1836 he established, with others, the Native American party, in whose cause he spent all his time and much of his for- tune. He edited several newspapers, including the New York Sun, the National Banner and the American Advocate. In 1838 he was elected to the New York legislature by a combination of the Whig and American parties. He orig- inated the bill authorizing the appointment of a commissioner to go to Europe to search records for facts concerning the colonial his- tory of New York. He opposed Seward on the school question, and as a result was de- feated for re-election. He then established in the book business, continuing until just previous to his death in 1846. The evening prior to his death he had been nominated by both Whig and American parties as one of the judges to revise the state constitution. He was a man of great ability, highly esteemed for his many sterling qualities. He married, at Providence, Rhode Island, Emeline Amelia, daughter of John and Freelove Thurber. Children : 1. Henry Albert, born in Provi- dence, December 14, 1820; resided in New York City; died unmarried. 2. John Reuben, of whom further. 3. Loring Dudley, died aged six years. 4. Infant unnamed. 5. Charles Loring, born in Providence, Novem- ber 25, 1828; married Matilda F. Quinn; re- sided in New York City; children: Fanny Amelia, Charles E., Henry Albert and Maria Osborn. 6. Emma Lucinda, born in New York City, 1835. 7. George Dudley, died in infancy. 8. Loring Dudley (3), born in Hart- ford, Connecticut, August 28, 1838; served in civil war; died unmarried. 9. Infant, un- named.

(VIII) John Reuben, son of Hon. Loring Dudley and Emeline Amelia (Thurber) Chapin, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, June 2, 1823, died November 11, 1883, in Buf- falo, New York, aged eighty-one years. When he was seven years of age his father removed to New York City, where he was educated. His father wished him to enter West Point when he was nineteen, but the son wished to study art, and only the intercession of Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, (who was a friend of the family), saved him from a military career. He studied law for six months as a concession to his father's wishes, but continued his art studies at the same time. When Gleason's Pictorial, a well-known illus- trated paper of Boston, was in its prime, Mr. Chapin applied for a position as illustrator. He was taken on the staff and sent south to make drawings of southern cities, also writing descriptions of his travels. After two years Gleason's failed and he then began illustrating in a general way for newspapers and maga- zines. In 1845 he established a studio in New York, and from 1850 until 1860 drew for the patent office at Washington. This brought him in contact with many noted men, among them Walter Hunt, inventor of the sewing machine and the original Springfield rifle. He also was a warm friend of Morse, the inventor. Shortly after 1850 he removed to Rahway, New Jersey, where he became interested in free masonry. He was elected deputy grand master and revised the ritual of the order and effected a reorganization of many of the lodges of the state. In 1860 he organized an art de- partment for Harper Brothers, becoming its superintendent. About this time he invented the block process of engraving, which facili- tated work in getting out wood cuts. When the civil war broke out Mr. Chapin was com- missioned captain and assigned to recruiting duty, organizing three batteries that went to the front. Being denied active duty in the field, he resigned, but was later elected colonel of the Thirty-third Regiment New Jersey Vol- unteers. The governor refused him a com- mission unless a certain man was appointed lieutenant. Colonel Chapin could not comply with this, therefore his commission was never issued.

After the close of the war Secretary of the Treasury Chase called for designs for treas- ury notes. Mr. Chapin submitted several de- signs, which were accepted, and appear on all

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the old issues of government bank notes. He depicted scenes in American history, with al- legorical illustrations. As long as Mr. Chase remained in office Mr. Chapin also designed many of the silver coins. About 1865 he es- tablished a wood engraving house and began the illustration of catalogues for business houses, then something new. A great deal of work came from the west, and in 1870 he came to Buffalo to start a branch office, called the Bureau of Illustration. After a year he be- came associated with Sage Sons & Company, in charge of their wood engraving department. He remained with them until 1873, although the firm had been succeeded by White & Braley. He later went to Chicago, where he worked as an independent designer. In 1875 he returned to New York City, where he con- fined his work to book illustrating. In 1880 he located in Boston, associating with Bal- four Brothers, publishers, devoting himself to illustrating until 1890, when he returned to Buffalo, entering the employ of Matthew- Northrup works as a designer and illustrator, continuing until 1894, when he retired from active work. In his later years he devoted himself to painting, using war-time subjects, his greatest pictures being those depicting bat- tle scenes. His last work was a drawing for the front page of the mid-winter number of the Los Angeles Times.

Mr. Chapin was made a Mason in St. John's Lodge, No. 1, Newark, New Jersey, receiv- ing the master mason's degree December 15, 1852. After filling other offices he was elected master in 1853. In 1854 he was elected master of Franklin Lodge, No. 10, of Irvington, New Jersey. In 1855 he was elected master of La Fayette Lodge, No. 27, of Rahway, serv- ing many years until 1867. For twelve years he was deputy grand master of New Jersey. He affiliated in Buffalo with Queen City Lodge, No. 358. In civil life Mr. Chapin was city clerk and member of the common council of Rahway, declining a nomination for mayor. He was president of the Old Men's Debating Society, composed of ministers, lawyers, teach- ers and other professional men of the city. He also held membership and official position in other societies and associations.

He married, August 22, 1848, Martha C. Shannon, born April 11, 1822, died Decem- ber 6, 1910, in Buffalo, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Wade) Shannon. A feature of their married life was that they celebrated

their golden wedding in Buffalo five years prior to the death of Mr. Chapin. At the golden wedding were Rev. and Mrs. S. P. Barker, of Buffalo, parents of Mrs. Dr. Charles P. Chapin, who four years before had celebrated their own golden wedding. Children: I. Henry Albert, born in New York, December 15, 1849, died in Rahway, New Jersey, aged seven years. 2. Harriet Elizabeth, born in Campton, New Jersey, October, 1851. 3. Free- love Thurston, born in Newark, New Jersey, January 7, 1853. 4. Isabella W., born in Rah- way, New Jersey, July 15, 1855, died in her third year. 5. William Emerson, born in Rah- way, New Jersey, May 25, 1857; married Lu V. Williams, of Chicago, Illinois; children : Ethel Agnes, Clarence, Bessie Irene and Edna Shannon. He was cartoonist for the Los An- geles Times, and all through the labor troubles was a close friend and co-worker with General Otis. He ranks very high in his profession. 6. Charles Pierson, of whom further. 7. Harry Stephen, born in Rahway, New Jersey, May I. 1862: married Minnie Briggs, of Providence, Rhode Island; child : Granville Pierson, born June 29, 1899; he is an engraver in wood, lo- cated in Providence.

(IX) Charles Pierson, son of John Reuben and Martha C. (Shannon) Chapin, was born in Rahway, New Jersey, March 26, 1860. He was educated in the private and public schools of Rahway and Buffalo, coming to the latter city with his parents at the age of ten years. He was a graduate of the State Normal Col- lege. 1879, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, M. D., Buffalo, 1891, also from medical department of the University of Buf- falo. He at once began practice in Buffalo, where he still continues in successful general practice. He has given much time to the ser- vice of the National Guard of New York. He enlisted in 1878 in the Seventy-fourth Regi- ment, serving ten years; re-enlisted in the Sixty-fifth Regiment, serving ten years, and was honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant-major in 1898. He was appointed assistant surgeon of the One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Regiment in 1898, and during the Spanish-American war was examining surgeon in Buffalo, with the rank of captain. At the close of the war he was placed on the super- numerary list. Dr. Chapin is a Republican in politics, and a member of Emmanuel Baptist church. He is the first Dr. Chapin to prac- tice in Buffalo since Dr. Cyrenius Chapin

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Genealogical and Family History of Western New York, Volume I, Part 73

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918 Publication date: 1912 Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 680

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 680