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edited and recast Wayland's Political Econ- oniTj (18T«). and also puhlislied a small text- book on The First Principle of Political Econ- omy (1879). He wrote numerous articles in magazines and reviews, and for several j'ears was one of tlie editor^ of the Congregational Review. He died at Beloit, Wis., July 22, 1892.

CHAPIN, Alfred Clark, commissioner, was born at South Hadley, Mass., March 8, 1848; son of Ephraim and Josephine (Clark) Chapin. In 1852 his parents took him to Keene, N. H., where he attended school imtil 1862, when he removed to Rutland, Vt. He was graduated at Williams college in 1869, and at the law department of Harvard college in 1871. In 1872 he was admit- ted to the bar, and in 1873 removed to BrookljTi, where he became prominent in local politics. In 1881 he was elected an assemblyman, was re- elected in 1882, and in 1883 was made speaker of the assembly. In 1883 he was elected state comptroller, and served a second term by re- election. In 1887 he was elected mayor of Brook- lyn, and in 1889 was re-elected by the large.st majority that had ever been given to a mayor of that city. He was appointed a member of the board of railroad commissioners of the state of New York in 1892.

CHAPIN, Alonzo Bowen, clergyman, was born at Somers, Conn., March 10, 1808. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1831 and began to practise law at Wallingford, Conn. At the same time he was editor of Tlie Chronicle of the Church, an Episcopalian periodical, published at New Haven. This work he continued for about eight years. In 1838 he was ordained an Episcopal minister, preached at West Haven, Conn., for twelve years. From 1850 to 1855 he was rector of St. Luke's church at Glastonbury, Conn., going to Hartford in the latter year to become editor of the Calen- dar. His published wi-itings include : The Eiig- glish spelling book ; containing Rules and Rea- sons for Orthography and Pronotinciation (1841); A View of the Organization and Order of the Primitive Church (1845) ; Puritanism not Gen- nine Protestantism (1847). and Glastonbury for Two Hundred Years (1853). He died in Hart- ford, Conn., July 9, 1858.

CHAPIN, Edwin Hubbell, clergyman, was born in Union Village, N. Y., Dec. 29, 1814; .son of .Alpheus and Beulah (Hubbell) Chapin. He attended the seminary fit Bennington, Vt., 182S-"32, and for two years was clerk in the post- oflRce in Bennington. In 1836 he studied law in Troy, N. Y.. later removing to Utica, N. Y. He was induced to give up his law studies and de- vote himself to theology, and he became at the same time associate editor of the Magazine and Advocate, an organ of the Universalists. In 1837 he was ordained to the Universalist ministry, and

in May of that year was installed in his first pas« torate, at Eicliniond, Va. In 1841 he settled in Charlestown, Mass. In 1847 he became colleague of Hosea Ballon at the School street church, Bos- ton, and remained there until 1848, when, after repeated urgings from the Universalists of New Y'ork city, he accepted a call to the fourth Uni- versalist society, of which he continued as pastor of a constantly growing congregation during the remainder of his life. In 1852 a larger church edi- fice, was purchased, situated on Broadway, near Spring street. This also proved too small for Dr. Chapin's listeners, and in 1866 the society erected, at the corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth street, a new temple, called the church of the Divine Paternity. In 1872 he became editor of the Christian Leader. He was one of the found- ers of the Chapin home for aged and indigent men and women, and a tru.stee of Bellevue med- ical college and hospital. Harvard college con- ferred upon him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1845, and that of S.T.D. in 1856, and in 1878 he received the degree of LL.D. from Tufts college. His published works include : Duties of Young Men (1840) ; Hours of Communion (1844 ; newed., 1853) : The Croivn of Thorns; a Token for the Sorrowing (1848 ; enl. ed., 1860) ; Duties of Young ^Volnen (1849) ; Discourses on the Lord's Prayer (1850) ; Characters in the Gospels, illustrating Phases of Character at the Present Day (1852) ; Moral Aspects of City Life (I8.)3): Discourses on the Beatitudes (1853) : Humanity in the City (1854) ; True Manliness (1854) ; Living Words (1860); Ex- teiuporaneous Discourses (1860); Lessons of Faith and Life (1877); God's Requirements, and Other Sei-mons (1881) ; and The Church of the Living God, and Other Sermons (1881). See Life of Edwin H. Chapin, by Sumner Ellis (1882). He died in New Y^ork city, Dec. 27, 1889.

CHAPIN, Henry, lawyer, was born in Upton, Mass., May 13, 1811. He was graduated at Brown university in 1835, and three years later com- pleted a law course at Harvard university and was admitted to the bar. He practised at Ux- bridge, Mass., until 1846, representing that dis- trict in the :Massachusetts hou.se of representa- tives in 1845. In 1846 he removed to Worcester, of which city he was mayor in 1849 and 1850. In 1855 he was chosen a commissioner under the " personal liberty " law. The following year he became a commissioner of insolvency, and in May, 1858, was commissioned as judge of probate and insolvency, being the fir.st incumbent of the combined offices of judge of probate and judg3 of insolvency. In 1873 Brown university conferred upon him the deoree of UL.D. He died in Wor- cester, Mass., Oct. 13, 1878.