Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Chapin, Horace H 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Deb Haines http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00003.html#0000719 January 31, 2008, 2:19 am

Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Horace H. Chapin, farmer, section 24, Hume Township, was born July 28, 1852, 
in Litchfield, Conn. Hart H. Chapin, his father, was a cabinet-maker and died 
two months after the birth of the son. The latter was brought to Prophetstown, 
this county, when he was five years of age, by his mother, Julia (Johnson) 
Chapin, and they were residents of that village until about the spring of 
1864, when they went to Hamilton, Hancock Co., Ill. The mother died there 
about nine years after. Mr. Chapin became a farm assistant on removal to 
Hamilton, coming later to Sterling and moving thence to Hume Township, where 
he was similarly occupied. Later still, he was employed on a farm in Lee 
County. He was married Feb. 19, 1880, to Delia, daughter of James H. Van 
Demark. (See sketch.) She was born Nov. 4, 1854, in Ulster Co., N. Y. She came 
to Illinois when she was 12 years of age, and was educated in the common 
schools of Sterling and Hume Townships. Mr. and Mrs. Chapin have one child, 
Myrta, born Dec. 14, 1883. They spent the year succeeding their marriage on a 
rented farm. In 1882 Mr. Chapin took'possession of 80 acres of land on section 
24, belonging to the father of his wife. In political faith and affiliation he 
is a Republican.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/whiteside/bios/chapin2245nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/

File size: 2.1 Kb