Cyclopedia of Michigan

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Excerpt from Cyclopedia of Michigan: Historical and Biographical, Comprising a Synopsis of General History of the State, and Biographical Sketches of Men Who Have, in Their Various Spheres, Contributed Toward Its DevelopmentCounty, Ohio, where they made their permanent residence. Here our subject grew to manhood, and lived until 1836, when, having married, he removed to Edwardsburg, Michigan, and engaged in mercantile business. Ten years later the family removed to Niles, Mr. Chapin con tinning his business, and engaging as well in buying and selling grain and produce. In 1864 he became the owner of a piece of land in the Northern Peninsula of Michigan, and in 1880 it was found to contain a large deposit of iron ore. Mining operations were at once commenced, and the celebrated Chapin Mine has since yielded a total of over eight million tons of iron ore. The output for 1880 was about thirty-four thousand tons, and the output for 1899 was about one million tons. This mine has proved to contain the largest deposit of iron ore ever discovered in the United States, and it made Mr. Chapin one of the wealthiest, if not the wealthiest, man in the State of Michigan. Mr. Chapin was vice-president of the Ohio Paper Mills of Niles, his son, Mr. Charles A. Chapin being the treasurer, the property consisting of one wood - pulp mill, and two mills for the manufacture of straw-board - used principally in the making of paper boxes - their product being shipped to the Eastern States, and also finding a market in Great Britain. Mr. Chapin was largely interested in real estate in Niles, and also in the city of Chicago. His own palatial residence in Niles, built at a cost of over two hundred thousand dollars, is one of the finest man sions in the State of Michigan. Mr. Chapin married early in life, and his only child is Mr. Charles A. Chapin, who became the administrator of the estate in favor of himself and his mother. Prior to the formation of the Republican party, Mr. Chapin had affiliated with the Whigs, and afterwards became an ardent supporter of the party of Abraham Lincoln. With his family, he had for many years been a member of the Presbyterian Church of Niles. He was a man of genial and courtly manners, and up to the time of the short illness which ended in his decease, had never complained of sickness, but had always enjoyed the best of health.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.