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Aaron Lucius Chapin was born on February 06, 1817 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. He was of New England stock, the son of Laertes and Laura (Colton) Chapin. Both of his grandfathers were deacons in the Congregational Church.
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Aaron Lucius Chapin was born on February 06, 1817 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. He was of New England stock, the son of Laertes and Laura (Colton) Chapin. Both of his grandfathers were deacons in the Congregational Church.
Chapin prepared for college at the Hartford Grammar School and graduated with honor at Yale College in the class of 1837. He graduated in 1842 at Union Theological Seminary, New York.
In 1843 Chapin went to Milwaukee, Wiconsin to become pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, where he was ordained January 24, 1844. From the outset keenly interested in the educational development of the Territory, he attended in the summer of 1844 a conference held at Cleveland, Ohio, to consider the religious and educational needs of the Mississippi Valley, and was one of seven men who, while returning to Wisconsin together, resolved to initiate a movement for the establishment of a college of the New England type in southern Wisconsin or northern Illinois. The convention which they called for this purpose, consisting of fifty-six delegates from Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa, met in Beloit, Wisconsin, as the most important town educationally in the region. The third of a series of four conventions decided in May 1845 upon the establishment of the college at Beloit; the fourth, in October, elected a board of trustees of whom Chapin was one, as he was also a member of its executive committee, an office which he held throughout his life.
From the beginning one of the most influential and trusted members of the board, he was called in 1849 to become the first president of the college and entered upon his official duties in February 1850. As president for thirty-six years (1850 - 1886) of the first institution for higher education in all that part of the country extending from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean, Chapin was for over a generation the center of the efforts to equip and endow the young college as well as the guiding spirit of its educational administration. He also gave his influence freely beyond the bounds of the college; was trustee of Chicago Theological Seminary, 1858-1891; of Rockford Seminary (later College), 1845-1892; corporate member of the American Board for Foreign Missions, 1851-1889; trustee of the Wisconsin Institute for Deaf and Dumb, 1865-1881, and president of its board 1873-1881; member of the National Council of Education from its foundation in 1881 to 1888.
As associate editor of Johnson’s Cyclopedia, 1875-1878, he contributed articles on social science and political economy. He was editor of the Congregational Review, 1870-1871, and associate editor of the New Englander, 1872-1873. In 1878 he published a revision of Francis Wayland’s Political Economy (1837). His own First Principles of Political Economy (1879) was praised by experts for its lucidity and balance.
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Chapin was a director of the American Home Missionary Society, 1850-1883 and a president of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, 1878-1881.
Chapin was tall and of vigorous physique. He possessed quick discernment and sound judgment, and the power of prompt leadership without dictation or vanity.
Chapin was twice married: in 1843, to Martha Colton of Lenox, Massachusetts, who died in 1859; and in 1861, to Fanny Learned Coit of New London, Connecticut.
