Chapin, J.P.

CHAPIN, JARROD, BURDICK, BARNUM

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1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

SHERIDAN TOWNSHIP

Page 941

CHAPIN, J.P.--Farmer, section 10, P.O. Sheridan Center. Was born in Franklin county, Massachusetts, September 5, 1815, and when about nine years of age moved with his parents to Livingston county, New York, where remained about seven years, when he moved to Lorain county, Ohio, there resided one year and then moved to Coldwater, Michigan, where he remained about two years, when he moved to Walworth county, Wisconsin, and lived there until the autumn of 1851. He was there married to Miss Sarah Jarrod, a native of Illinois. In 1851 he came to Clinton county, this State, there his wife died about two months after his arrival. He was again married, about one year after, to Miss Catharine Burdick, a native of New York. In the spring of 1854 he moved to Fillmore county, Minnesota, where he lived until 1867, when he came to his present location and purchased a farm of two hundred acres, which he improved; has been quite successful in this county. He has held the office of school director and township treasurer, and other positions of trust. His family consists of seven children, all living: Henry, James, Rose, Ella and Annette, from his first union; and West, Elmer and Emma (now wife of W.H. Barnum, of Nuckolls county, Nebraska).