Background
Henry, Horace Chapin was born on October 6, 1844 in Bennington, Vermont, United States. Son of Paul Mandell and Aurelia (Squier) Henry.
Henry, Horace Chapin was born on October 6, 1844 in Bennington, Vermont, United States. Son of Paul Mandell and Aurelia (Squier) Henry.
Educated Norwich University, Vermont, 1881-1862. Williams College. Massachusetts, 1864-1865. Hobart College, New York, 1865-1866.
Bachelor of Science and Civil Engineer, Norwich, 1909, as of 1864.
He left Norwich Military School (better known as Norwich University) at age 18, serving as a First Sergeant, 14th Vermont Infantry in the Second Vermont Brigade which was in the center of the line repulsing Pickett"s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. After the war he was a partner in Henry & Balch working on railroad construction in the Midwest. He moved to Seattle in 1890 to work on the Northern Pacific Railroad"s belt line around Lake Washington, and later the Great Northern Railway"s route from Stevens Pass in the Cascade Mountains to Everett on Puget Sound.
Henry"s 1901 home in the Harvard-Belmont District on Seattle"s Capitol Hill was the first of many Victorian, Neo-classical, Colonial Revival, and Tudor Revival houses built in the early part of the century.
lieutenant is noteworthy for having been built with a five-car garage at a time when automobiles were a novelty in Seattle. He was president of the Metropolitan Bank and National Bank of Commerce in Seattle, and formed Pacific Creosoting Company on Bainbridge Island in 1906.
A tanker which supplied creosote from Europe to this plant was named the hockey club Henry and was sunk by a German submarine in World War I on September 28, 1915. In 1911, after the death of a son to tuberculosis, he donated land and funds to open Henry Sanatorium in Seattle, later renamed Firland Tuberculosis Hospital.
He was an investor in, and vice president of, the Metropolitan Building Company, which developed the Metropolitan Tract in Seattle.
The 11-story Henry Building there was named for him. He donated his art collection, which he formerly kept at his home and opened to the public for display, to the University of Washington in 1926 and donated the funds to build a new gallery to house the collection, which was to be the Henry Art Gallery. Henry died in his sleep in his Seattle home on June 28, 1928 and is buried at Lake View Cemetery in Seattle.
After his life
The branch was rebuilt and renamed in 2003 to the Capitol Hill Branch.
The Snoqualmie Pass route was converted to a Rail Trail after Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul went bankrupt in 1980. See Iron Horse State Park.
Eagle Harbor was designated a superfund site in 1987 due to pollution from the creosote plant. See Pacific Creosoting Company.
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Married Susan Elizabeth Johnson, December 1876. Children: Langdon Chapin, Paul Mandell, Walter Horace (deceased), Florence Aurelia (deceased).