Background
Chapin, Francis Stuart was born on February 3, 1888 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Charles Brookes and Florence Adelaide (Johnson) Chapin.
Chapin, Francis Stuart was born on February 3, 1888 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Charles Brookes and Florence Adelaide (Johnson) Chapin.
He attended the University of Rochester from 1905 to 1908 and then transferred to Columbia University, from which he was graduated in 1909 and received his Ph.D. in 1911.
Chapin's early books drew heavily upon historical and anthropological sources in F. H. Giddings' theories of social change. Chapin taught sociology at Wellesley College in the year 1911-1912, and at Smith College from 1912 to 1922. After he became head of the department of sociology at the University of Minnesota in 1922, his work made him a recognized leader of the quantitative school in sociology. His research was characterized by emphasis upon development of new techniques utilizing statistical methods in the study of social phenomena. His activities included editorship of Social Science Abstracts (1928 to 1933) and of the American Sociological Review (1944 to 1946). He was president of the American Sociological Society in 1935, and became professor emeritus in 1949.
Member faculties Wellesley College, Smith College, University Minnesota, 1911-1953. Member editorial staffs various publications, from 1923. Member of advisory board Sociological Abstracts of New York, 1957-1964.
Conservation to Community Research Associates, from 1953, North Carolina Board of Higher Education, from 1963. Member committee hygiene of housing, American Public Health Association, 1936-1957. Fellow American Statistical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president section K 1943), American Sociological Society (president 1935), Royal Society Health (London), Sociological.
Clubs: Automobile, Campus, Asheville Civitan, Mountain City of Asheville (North Carolina).
Married Nellie Estelle Peck, September 7, 1911 (died November 29, 1925).; married second, Eula Elizabeth Pickard, February 19, 1927. Children: Edward Barton, Francis Stuart, Florence Estelle.