Chapin, Asahel

Chapin, Asahel a Baptist minister, was born at West Springfield, Mass., July 20, 1804. He graduated at Amherst College in 1829, and at the Newton Theological Institution in 1833. He was ordained at Ashtabula, 0., Feb. 13, 1834, where he remained about one year and then removed to Buffalo, N. Y., and was pastor in 1836 and 1837; then pastor at Jamestown, from 1837 to 1843; at Tariffville, Conn., in 1846 and 1847; Second West Springfield, Mass., from 1847 to 1849; Second Holvoke, from 1849 to 1852; Galena, 11l., from 1852 to 1856; Vinton, Ia., from 1856 to 1863; Dubuque, from 1863 to 1870. On leaving Dubuque, he removed to Rice, Peace Co., Kansas, where he resided without charge the remainder of his life. See Newtons General Catalogue. (J. C. S.)