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3 unusual facts about Chester W. Chapin


Chester W. Chapin

Around 1826 he bought an interest in the stage line from Hartford, Connecticut to Brattleboro, Vermont, soon holding extensive mail and stage contracts.

Chapin was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877), and served on the Committee of Ways And Means.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress.


Alfred C. Chapin

Chapin was elected as a Democrat to the 52nd United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of David A. Boody and served from November 3, 1891, to November 16, 1892, when he resigned.

Artillery Company of Newport

The museum features the uniforms of prominent individuals such as General Colin Powell, General William Westmoreland, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Colonel Katherine Amelia Towle, President Anwar Sadat, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, King Hussein of Jordan and HRH Prince Phillip.

Chester W. Taylor

Taylor was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, serving from October 25, 1921 to March 3, 1923.

Edmund Dick Taylor

On 5 February 1857, the Chicago Merchants' Exchange company was incorporated by: Edmund D. Taylor, Thomas Hall, George Armour, James Peck, John P. Chapin, Walter S. Gurnee, Edward Kendall Rogers, Thomas Richmond, Julian Sidney Rumsey, Samuel B. Pomeroy, Elisha Wadsworth, Walter Loomis Newberry, Hiram Wheeler and George Steele.

Frederick H. Chapin

Reprinted in 1987, with forward and notes by James H. Pickering, by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.

Hellcats of the Navy

Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz endorses the film on screen at the start of the movie.

Herman M. Chapin

Chapin was also president of the Cleveland Library Association in 1854 and 1858 and helped to establish the First Unitarian Church in 1854.

James M. Buchanan

He spent the war years on the staff of Admiral Nimitz in Honolulu, and it was during that time he met and married Anne Bakke on 5 October 1945; Anne, of Norwegian descent, was working as a nurse at the military base in Hawaii.

John B. Chapin

After a year, he transferred to Williams College (Massachusetts) and received the A.B. degree in 1850.

Robert S. Wood

Wood was the holder of the Chester W. Nimitz Chair of National Security at the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, where he also served as Dean of the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group, and Dean (later, Dean Emeritus) of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies, a focal point of strategic and campaign thought in the naval services and a major research group in the national security field.

U.S. Route 290

West of Austin, U.S. 290 is a rather scenic route through the Texas Hill Country, passing through the towns of Fredericksburg and Johnson City, and hence close to the historical sites connected with Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, a top commander during the War in the Pacific (1941–45) and the deceased President from Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson.

William A. Matheny

He was decorated by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Pacific Fleet commander, for his outstanding service in the Pacific theater during World War II.


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