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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 456-457]

    JOHN L. CHAPIN, an enterprising and progressive agriculturist of
    Sheridan Township, has been a resident of Cherokee County since
    1869.  He was born in Madison County, Indiana, in 1847, and is a
    son of ORAN CHAPIN, a native of Kentucky, who was born in 1816.
    ORAN CHAPIN married Miss MARTHA WHITE, who was born in Indiana
    in 1824, and who died in 1853.  In that same year JOHN L. was
    bound out to SIMS GARRISON, who was living at that time in In-
    diana.  At the early age of seventeen years our subject joined
    the defenders of the old flag, enlisting in the Fifty-fourth
    Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under command of J. F. MANSFIELD,
    son of General MANSFIELD.  His first battle was fought on the
    Chickasaw Bluffs, and the next, January 11, 1863, at Arkansas
    Post; thence he went to Vicksburg, Champion Hills, Port Gibson
    and Raymond, Mississippi, at the latter place his regiment tak-
    ing 500 Confederate prisoners.  He went into camp at Black River
    Bridge, and afterward went to Vicksburg, via Jackson, and thence
    to New Orleans; there Mr. CHAPIN'S health failed and he was given
    a discharge; he remained in New Orleans eight weeks, and then re-
    turned to his home in Indiana.  He remained there until 1868, his
    health getting no better, when he determined to go West to regain
    health; he went to Iowa, settling in Tama County, but afterward
    removing to Cherokee County.  He took a homestead of eighty acres
    in Cherokee Township, which he improved and sold in 1886; he then
    bought forty acres in Sheridan Township, on which he makes his home.
    Mr. CHAPIN also owns 154 acres in O'Brien County, Iowa. Politically
    he casts his vote with the Republican party; he was elected by the
    people of his township to fill the office of trustee, but he declined
    to serve the term out.  He is a member of the General Custer Post,
    No. 25, G.A.R. Mr. CHAPIN was married in January, 1873, to Miss
    ZILLAH TYNER, a daughter of S. D. TYNER, Esq. a native of Wabash
    County, Indiana.  Eight children have been born of this marriage:
    C.C.; ORVILLE G., died March 7, 1877; MARY L., ELLA J., IZORA A.,
    CORA D., ARTHUR C. and EDITH E.  Mr. and Mrs. CHAPIN are acceptable
    members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and take an active interest
    in all movements tending to upbuild the community in which they live.

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