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son J. Bushnell and Rev. Joseph Emerson, D. D., had just be¬ 
come professors of the new institution, and to Dr. Chapin in 
conjunction with these two professors, is in large measure due 
the determining of the wise principles and methods by which, 
its administration has been rendered so eminently successful in 
the training of men. 
Dr. Chapin was married to Miss Martha Colton, of Lenox., 
Mass., August 23, 1843. After her death he married, as his. 
second wife, Miss Fannie L. Coit of New London, August 
26th, 1861. He is father of four children* One of them, Eliza¬ 
beth C., now the wife of Henry D. Porter, M. D., is 
a missionary of the American Board of Missions in Puang; 
Chuang, China. His only son, Robert Coit Chapin, is his 
father’s successor in the professorship of political economy in 
Beloit College. Two daughters, Annie L. and Ellen F., still 
remain since the father’s death, with Mrs. Chapin and their 
brother, in the home at Beloit. 
The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on President 
Chapin by Williams college in 1853, and that of Doctor of 
Laws by the University of New York in 1882. He served the 
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions as one 
of its corporate members, for many years. In 1884 he was, 
appointed to preach the annual sermon. From an early period 
in its history he was one of the directors of the American. 
Home Missionary Society. He was one of the vice-presidents, 
of the American Missionary Association, president of the board 
of trustees of the State Institution for Deaf Mutes, an original 
trustee of Rockford Seminary, and one of the directors of the- 
Chicago Theological Seminary. He was one of the board of 
examiners at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 
1872, and held the same position at West Point in 1873. His 
connection with the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences began with 
its origin in 1870; he has held the office of its president and in 
1891 was made, because of eminent services and worth, a life- 
member. Many valuable contributions from his pen are in its 
records. His connection with the whole interest of public in¬ 
struction in Wisconsin, both direct and indirect, has been 
